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to other living things—all these are matters deserv-
ing and repaying patient observation and investi-
gation. Years of devoted study by generations of
naturalists have but lifted the fringe of the subject ;
there are wide fields open for further exploration,
some as yet almost untrod. The most learned
and observant entomologist recognises how little he
knows, compared with that which is unknown and
unsuspected, and truthfully he can but re-echo the
words of the dying Newton—" I know not how
I appear to others, but to myself I seem but as a
child playing on the sea-shore, amused by finding
now and again a smoother pebble or a brighter
shell than ordinary, the while the great ocean of
truth lies all undiscovered before me."