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forms and colourings we perceive in feveral kinds 

 of infedts and other animals, as things to delight 

 and pleafe the fenfe of thofe animals, and others 

 of the brute creation : Or whether they were de- 

 figned principally for the delight and contem- 

 plation of man the lord of this lower world, is a 

 queltion. A reafon, in my opinion, why infe6ts 

 are not fenfible of their own beauty, is the form 

 of their eyes, which let in the light through a 

 kind of net-work, which mufl difcover the ob- 

 jets in a confufed manner ; or if we fuppofe 

 tach little part a diftindl eye, they are fo fmall 

 that an objed muft almoft touch them to be 

 diitin6lly perceived in its parts, and the quantity 

 taken in at once fo fmall, that the entire form 

 of one infed can hardly appear plain to another; 

 thefe eyes may indeed ferve them to diftinguilh 

 opake bodies from the clear air they fly in -, and, 

 when they approach very near, to pick out fmali 

 particles lying on leaves and fruits, which fupply 

 rnoft in feds with food. 



Now, as the eyes of man feem to be more 

 adapted than thofe of infeds to receive the vari- 

 ous forms and colours of natural things, I am 



of 



