176 PERFECT SOCIETIES OF INSECTS. 



After all, there are mysteries, as to the primum mobile, 

 amongst these social tribes, that with all our boasted reason 

 we cannot fathom ; nor develop satisfactorily the motives that 

 urge them to fulfil in so remarkable though diversified a way 

 their different destinies. One thing is clear to demonstration, 

 that by these creatures and their instincts the power, wisdom, 

 and goodness of the Great Father of the universe are 

 loudly proclaimed ; the atheist and infidel confuted ; the 

 believer confirmed in his faith and trust in Providence, 

 which he thus beholds watching, with incessant care, over the 

 welfare of the meanest of his creatures ; and from which he 

 may conclude that he, the prince of the creation, will never be 

 overlooked or forsaken : and from them what lessons may be 

 learned of patriotism and self-devotion to the public good ; 

 of loyalty ; of prudence, temperance, diligence, and self- 

 denial. But it is time at length to put an end to this long 

 disquisition. 



I am, &c. 



