An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3

part concealed from us: in many instances it may perhaps be referred

to that will to vary forms, and so to glorify his wisdom[173] and power, independently of other considerations, which, as Dr. Paley has well remarked[174], seems often to have guided the Great Author of Nature. But in some cases the end to be answered is sufficiently evident. The long footstalks of the eggs of the ...