. Early lessons .. . 182 INSECTS. OF all animated beings, man offers the most wonderful\ ;xi iciv in his internal conformation ; quadrupeds comenext;. and other animals follow, in proportion to their pow-ers, or excellences. Insects seem, above all others, imperfectly formed ; from their minuteness, the dissect-ing knife can go but a short way in the investigation. One thing argues an evident imperfection; which many of them can live a long time, though deprivedof those organs, which are necessary to life in the higherranks of nature. Many of them are furnished with
. Early lessons .. . 182 INSECTS. OF all animated beings, man offers the most wonderful\ ;xi iciv in his internal conformation ; quadrupeds comenext;. and other animals follow, in proportion to their pow-ers, or excellences. Insects seem, above all others, imperfectly formed ; from their minuteness, the dissect-ing knife can go but a short way in the investigation. One thing argues an evident imperfection; which many of them can live a long time, though deprivedof those organs, which are necessary to life in the higherranks of nature. Many of them are furnished with lungsand a heart, like noble animals ; yet the caterpillar con- INSECTS. 183 tinues to live, though its heart and lungs, as is often thecase, are entirely eaten away. We may define insects to be little animals without redblood, bones, or cartilages, furnished with a trunk, or elsea mouth, opening lengthwise, with eyes, which they areincapable of covering, and with lungs which have theiropenings on the sides. This definition compre
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