AFFECTION OF INSECTS FOR THEIR YOUNG. 215 
cular sympathy the affection of the lower animals to their young, on the 
ground that this feeling is in them the result of corporeal sensation only, 
and wholly different from that love which human parents feel for their 
offspring. It is true that the latter involves moral considerations which 
cannot have place in the brute creation ; but it would puzzle such ob- 
jectors to explain in what respect the affection which a mother feels for 
her new-born infant the moment it has seen the light differs from that of 
an insect for its progeny. ‘I'he affection of both is purely physical, and in 
each case springs from sensations interwoven by the Creator in the con- 
stitution of his creatures. If the parental love of the former is worthy of 
our tenderest sympatinies, that of the latter cannot be undeserving of some 
portion of similar feeling. 
I an, &c. 
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