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the likeness, some flashes of the individuality, or a certain undefinable some¬ 
thing which seems like a counterfeit, of man. 
These gleams, which so troubled the great Swammerdam, and made him 
recoil with dread, are precisely the circumstances that give me encouragement. 
Yes; all see, all feel, and all love : a miracle truly religious ! In the material 
infinite which deepens under my eyes, I recognize, for my reassurance, a 
moral infinite. The individuality hitherto claimed as a monopoly by the 
pride of the chosen species, I see generously extended to all, and conferred 
even upon the least. The gulf of life would have seemed to me deserted, 
desolate, barren, and godless, had I not everywhere discovered the warmth and 
tenderness of the Universal Love. 
NOTE 2. 
Our Authorities .—In a book which puts forward no scientific pretensions, 
the book of an unlearned writer dedicated to unlearned readers, we do not 
hesitate to confess that our method of study was very indirect. If we had 
commenced with subtle classificators or minute anatomists, or with dry manuals 
of instruction, perhaps we should have been checked at the first step. But 
we approached this science on its attractive side—through the great historians 
of the insect, who have united the delineation of its habits with the description 
of its organs. Our mind had received a strong and decisive blow (if we may 
