THE SUBSTITUTE; 
Or, Entomological Exchange Facilitator, and 
Entomologist’s Fire-side Companion. 
No. 8.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1856. [Peice 2d. 
POPULAR ENTOMOLOGY. 
At a meeting of the Manchester 
Mechanics’ Institution, on the 18lh 
November, Lord Palmerston, in 
the course of an address full of 
practical wisdom, made the follow- 
ing observations, and we think 
they are so good in themselves, 
and so applicable to our purpose — 
the diffusion of entomological in- 
formation among the people — that 
we have resolved to bring them 
before our readers. “ The first 
object of instruction ought to be 
that which we have been told is 
the meaning of education — to 
teach a man how to live — and to 
teach a man how to live, his at- 
tention ought first to be directed 
to that pursuit to which he means 
to devote himself through life: 
there indeed he should drink 
deeply, and there he should endea- 
vour to perfect his knowledge ; 
but should he on that account not 
endeavour to enlarge his mind, to 
extend his views, and obtain in- 
formation on other matters not 
connected with the business of his 
profession? Then we may be 
told that we will make him a mere 
smatterer in knowledge, to which 
I reply that it is better for a man 
to be a mere smatterer than to be 
ignorant and uninstructed. An 
ignorant man believes that his 
country is the only one in the 
world, that this planet is the only 
great portion of the Creation, that 
the sun is placed in the firmament 
merely to warm him, the moon to 
light him home, and the stars to 
amuse him on the journey; but 
when he is let into the secret of 
that vast universe, the contempla- 
tion of which fills the mind with 
awe, his views become more libe- 
ral and enlightened, his mind is 
raised above the grovelling ideas 
of life, and he finds himself a su- 
perior being to what he had been 
before.” Emphatically true are 
these sentiments; and we wish we 
could engrave them on the hearts 
of the great artizan class whose 
heads and hands have made this 
England what it is. Emphati- 
cally true of all knowledge, whe- 
ther of worlds rolling in their or- 
bits, or of insects basking in the 
sunbeam or floating in the even- 
ing’s shade. The study of the 
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