Excerpt from The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1836, Vol. 1 Society will prove not to have been founded in vain. As to the influence of Entomology, when rationally pursued, over the mind and heart, none but 'the fool' who has said what 'none but a fool could have said, ' can deny its power. If the artificial spider in which 'a thousand movements scarce one purpose gain, ' excite our admiration at the talent that could devise, and the delicate hand that could execute the mechanism by which it ...
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Excerpt from The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1836, Vol. 1 Society will prove not to have been founded in vain. As to the influence of Entomology, when rationally pursued, over the mind and heart, none but 'the fool' who has said what 'none but a fool could have said, ' can deny its power. If the artificial spider in which 'a thousand movements scarce one purpose gain, ' excite our admiration at the talent that could devise, and the delicate hand that could execute the mechanism by which it describes its few and circumscribed motions, what should we think of that Artificer who, in the ten millionth part of its bulk, can establish organs of motion and vitality incalculably more perfect, incalculably more delicate? The mere collector, who uses his eyes to any tolerable purpose, can hardly miss the inference; but the scientific entomologist, who studies internal structure no less than external form, must be dead indeed to feeling if these wonders of the little world do not warm his heart to the full glow Of adoration, and lead him to exclaim, in words like those applied by the poet to inconceivably mightier masses indeed, but not, therefore, mightier evidences of ih finite wisdom and power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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