appear to be more or less judiciously fixed ; but in a nutral 

 view, if one train of tliinking be more desirable than another, 

 it is that which regards the phenomena of nature with a con - 

 stant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. Trifling, 

 therefore, and perhaps contemptible, as to the unthinking may 

 seem the study of a Butterfly, yet when we consider the art 

 and mechanism displayed in so minute a structure, the fluids 

 circulating in vessels so small as almost to escape the 

 sight, the beauty of their wings and covering, and the 

 manner in which each part is adapted for its peculiar func- 

 tion, we cannot but be struck with wonder and admiration, 

 and must feel convinced, that the Maker of all has bestowed 

 equal skill in every class of animated beings ; and also allow 

 with Paley, that " the production of beauty was as much 

 in the Creator's mind in painting a Butterfly, as in giving 

 symmetry to the human form." 



It would, however, be a waste of time to prove how de- 

 lightful and instructive it is to " look through nature u|) to 

 nature's God ;" as well as an useless labour to demonstrate, 

 that " if any judicious or imjiroved use is to be made of 

 the natural bodies around us, it must be expected from 

 those who discriminate their kinds, and study their pro- 

 perties." 



" To see all tilings in God," observe the authors of the 

 Introduction to Entomology, " has been accounted one of 



