THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 227.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1861. [Price Id. 
TRY. 
Ix is a very old saying, but none the 
less true on that account, that “ We 
never know what we can do till we 
try.” 
Many will shrink back appalled at 
some undertaking that lies before them, 
saying within themselves, “ Oh ! I can 
never do that!” and so saying they 
will imagine that they have settled 
the matter definitively for ever, quite 
forgetting that there is a very impres- 
sive little word of three letters — Try. 
That which seems colossal, insuper- 
able, impossible, melts, like the recent 
snows, directly we begin to try. 
Now, if this be so, and the expe- 
rience of all our older readers will 
confirm it, then it follows that what- 
ever we think of doing we should 
do at once. Instead of thinking and 
harassing our minds whether we can 
do a thing or not, suppose we begin 
by trying : almost immediately we try 
we shall find that we succeed. There 
are many who read these lines who 
imagine that they could not pin a 
Nepticula. Have they ever tried ? 
Then how can they tell what they can 
do till they do try? 
Future difficulties always appear in- 
surmountable, but directly we come 
up to them, and grapple with them, 
they disappear, and we find that what 
seemed so impervious was simply a 
fog, which we have walked through 
without knowing it. 
If any one could see before him 
at a glance all the difficulties he has 
to get through during this present 
year 1861, he would be utterly ap- 
palled, but they come before us one 
by one, and each is disposed of as it 
appears. 
As Longfellow has it — 
“Act, act in the living present .” 
Don’t bother yourself about what may 
be, or about some contingency which 
might possibly arise; wait, with perfect 
confidence, till it does arise, and then 
you will find it will be easily disposed 
of. If riding on the top of an om- 
nibus you look along Oxford Street 
you will be struck with an inward 
conviction that some of the numerous 
pedestrians who are continually crossing 
the street will infallibly be run over, 
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