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the absorption may continue to be effected directly from without, although the 
opening by which the nutritive matters penetrate usually into the digestive 
cavity, is obstructed and obliterated.” — Ann. des Sciences Nat. Part. Zool., Vol. 
i. p. 25-31. 
“ And now, should it be asked, granting all this to be true, to what end has so 
much labour been bestowed in the demonstration ? I can only answer, that as 
to me these disquisitions have opened new scenes of wonder and astonishment, 
in contemplating how variously, how extensively life is distributed through the 
universe of things : so it is possible, that the facts here related, and these in- 
stances of nature animated in a part hitherto unsuspected, may excite the like 
pleasing ideas in others ; and in minds more capacious and penetrating, lead to 
farther discoveries, farther proofs (should such be wanting,) that One infinitely 
wise, good, all-powerful Being has made, and still upholds, the whole of what 
is good and perfect ; and hence we may learn, that, if creatures of so low an 
order in the great scale of nature are endued with faculties that enable them to 
fill up their sphere of action with such propriety ; we likewise, who are advan- 
ced so many gradations above them, owe to ourselves, and to Him who made us 
and all things, a constant application to acquire that degree of rectitude and 
perfection, to which we also are endued with faculties of attaining.” — Ellis. 
