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HALF IFOURS AVITH INSECTS. 
[Packard. 
will lie endeavor to train them by the power of kindness 
than by the force of blows. 
So in the dealings of civilized with savage man ; the legiti¬ 
mate results of a proper study of anthropology, or the science 
of man, while teaching us that there are different grades of 
intellect and moral sense in the different races of man, 
as in the members of our own families, where each may re¬ 
quire a different mode of education though all are equally 
loved by their parents, will lead us to observe the primary 
law of international behavior—the law of love. Each may 
require a different mode of treatment, while all must be re¬ 
garded as men and brothers. 
Though one race under a favoring heaven and superior 
mental organization stands superior to another, yet, if many 
naturalists are right, all have had a common monkey origin ; 
and the European or American of to-day need not despise 
his Bushman or Australian brother, who is perhaps but a 
few removes nearer his simian ancestors than himself. 
So all the animal creation is of a piece ; part and parcel of 
one grand Divine plan. Some philosophers and theologians 
even ascribe immortality to the animals, and believe that in 
the hereafter we shall hear the song of the mosquito, the 
hum of the bee, and the shrill rolling drum-beat of the ci¬ 
cada. 
Insects are related to us in a thousand ways, and some¬ 
how, either by themselves or through their products, they are, 
more than we should at first imagine, constantly in our daily 
thoughts. Beau BrummeFs cravat, which historians tell us 
absorbed no small proportion of his thoughts in his waking 
moments, was spun by a silkworm. A spider’s web, tradi¬ 
tion says, saved King Robert Bruce in his sleep. Thou¬ 
sands of people in the East are dependent for life on locusts 
and wild honey. Is the potato beetle an unimportant per¬ 
sonage in the west ? And in the south are not hundreds of 
thousands of dollars’ worth of cotton annually devoured by 
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