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lurk and the various ways by which they appear to place themselves nearly 
or quite out of our reach—many, I say, are inclined to despair of its being 
possible for man to resist them with any prospect of success. But I cannot 
think that Divine Providence has placed in our world any enemy of this 
kind, without also endowing man with sufficient intelligence to discover a 
remedy by which it will be practicable for us to frustrate or overpower 
that enemy. The more I examine these creatures the more confirmed I 
become in the opinion that there is no injurious insect in our world, but 
that, when we come to study its habits and transformations and become 
perfectly acquainted with all the details of its history, we shall be able to 
detect «ome assailable point and devise some measure by which either the 
insect can be destroyed or the vegetation on which it depredates can be 
shielded from its attacks. We shall discover that, although he may be 
invulnerable in every other part, no aogis protects his heel, and if we strike 
Achilles there, we inflict a death-wound. 
