THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 38.] 
TIME PRESENT. 
“ I wasted a great deal of time last 
year: I mean to do much better next 
year. But what, in the meanwhile, am 
I doing this year?” We are very apt to 
regret the past, and to resolve for the 
future. It is no use regretting the past, 
for it is already irrecoverably gone, and 
we cannot repair it: it is of little use 
resolving for the future, — that future 
which we cannot foresee, and which may 
never be ours, — but we can act during 
the time present , and we ought to see 
that we turn it to the best advan- 
tage. 
Summer, as every one knows, is no 
time with the entomologist for inaction ; 
but what we wish to impress upon our 
readers is the importance of time present. 
You see a little swarm of something; 
perhaps you say, “Ah! Iam tired now ; 
I will only catch a few, but I will come 
back and catch a lot to-morrow.” Oh, 
silly and perverse ! as if the insects were 
to be there just whenever you wanted to 
catch them : you must reverse this con- 
duct, and catch them whilst they are 
there, or assuredly you will not find them 
on the morrow. Such misadventures 
have before now befallen most of our 
readers, and when they discovered the 
evil results of procrastination they no 
doubt regretted the past and resolved 
for the future ; perhaps before the week 
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was out again they neglected the time 
present. 
When you have an opportunity, use 
it. The great difference between the suc- 
cessful and the unsuccessful man is, not 
that the one has more opportunities than 
the other, but that he uses them ; while 
the unsuccessful man omits to seize 
and make use of them while he has the 
power. 
“ Oh ! I can do that at any time.” 
True, you think so, but in this world of 
change you can have no certainty, and if 
it is anything that wants doing, you had 
better do it at once. The mass of dis- 
coveries that are incomplete, just because 
some individual thought he could com- 
plete them at any lime, and therefore 
never did complete them, is really 
fearful. 
Be pertinacious; follow up a clue 
when you have it; don’t relax; stick 
to it; show a bull-dog obstinacy in your 
determination to solve the problem ; and 
doubt not such persevering efforts will 
be crowned with success. 
Now we trust all our readers, juvenile 
as well as adults, have felt the truth and 
force of what we have said, and that 
they have not read this listlessly and 
sleepily. If they have beeu mooning in 
a semi-dreamy state over these columns, 
let them give themselves a hearty shake. 
It is anything but satisfactory to us 
to have readers who are but half- 
awake. 
N 
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1857. 
