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or epiploon, epiplocele; and if both, cnteroepiplocele Sharp's Surgerò.

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Beaf, bird, infect, or worm, durit enter nore.

Milton. 2. To penetrate mentally; to make intellectual entrance. He is particularly pleafed, with Livy for his manner of telling a story, and with Saluft for his entering into eternal principles of action. Addison. 3. To engage in The French king hath often entered on several expentive projects, on purpose to difiipate wealth. Addison. 4. To bei nitiated in.-As foon as they once entered into a tafte of pleafare, politenes, and magnificence, they fell into a thoufand violences, confpiracies, and divifions. Addison.

* ENTERDEAL. n. 5. Fenter and deal] ciprocal tranfactions. Obfolete.-

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For he is practis'd well in policy,' And thereto doth his counting most apply; To learn the enterdeal of princes ftrange, To mark th' intent of counfels, and the change Of states. Halberd's Tale. ENTERITIS, inflammation of the inteftines. Ste MEDICINE, Index.

* T. ENTERLACE. . a. [entreloffir, Fr.] To intermix; to interwewe.-This lady walked outright, 'till the might fee her enter into a fine clofe arbor: it was trees, whose branches to lɔvingly enterlaced one another, that it could refift the fronzeft violence of the fight. Sidney.

ENTEROCELE, n. f. [enterad, Lat.] A rupture from the bowels preting through or dila. ting the peritoneum, fo as to fall down into the groin. The remedy in fuch cales, is chiefly by truffes and bolfters. Quincy--If the inteftine only is fallen, it becomes an entercale; if the omentum

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(1.) * ENTEROLOGY, n. f. ¡erigo and a.yo.] The anatomical account of the bowels and internal parts.

(2.) ENTEROLOGY. Se ANATOMY, § 264—323. * ENTEROMPHALOS. n / {trigovand op pass.] An umbilical or naval rupture.

* ENTERPARLANCE. . f. [enter and parA", Fr. Parley; mutual talk; conference.During the enterparlance, the Scots difcharged again the Engli, not without breach of the laws of the field. Hywood.

* ENTERPLEADER. n. §. [entre and pléod.] The dilculling of a point incidentally failing out, before the principai caufe can take end. For example: two feveral perfons being found heirs to land by two feveral officers in one county, the Ling is brought in doubt whether livery ought to be made; and therefore, before livery be made to either, they mutt interplead; that is, try between themfelves who is the right heif. Carel.

* ENTERPRISE n. enterprise, French] An undertaling of hazard; an arduous attempt.Now is the time to execute mine enterpriles, to the deftruction of the enemies. Judith, ii. 5.When on Warwick to this enterprile. Shakelp,

* To INTERPRISE. . a. from the noun.] 1. To undertake; to attempt; to ellay.-

Nor all I to the work thou enterprise Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid." Milton. Ilate then, and lofe no time:

The business must be enterpris'd this night; We mu furprife the court in its delight. Drgd. 2. To receive; to entertain. Obfolete.

In goodly garments, that her well became, Fair marching forth in honourable wife, Him at the threshold met, and well did enter Spenser

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* ENTERPRISER. n., from enterprie] A man of enterprife; one who undertakes great things: one who engages himfelf in impertant and dangerous deligas.-They commonly proved great enterprifers with happy fuccefs. Hayward.

*T ENTERTAIN. v. a. [from entretenir, Fr.] 1. To converte with; to talk with.-His head was 15 well fored a magazine, that nothing could be propofed which he was not readily furnished to entertain any one in. Locke. 2. To treat at the table. You' fhall find an apartment fitted up for you, and fall be every day entertained with beef or mutton of my own feeding. 'Addifon's Spelt. 3. To receive hoipitably-Be not forgetful to entertain frangers; for thereby fome have entertained angels unawares. Hb. xin. 2. 4. To keep in one's fervice.-How many men would you require to the furishing of this which you have taken in hand? Ai d'how long space would you have them entertained. Spenser.--You, fit, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fafhion of your garments. Shuk. 5. To teforve in the mind. -This purpofe God can entertain towards us. Decoy of Fig. 6. To pleafe; to amufe; to divert.

They were capable of entertaining themfelves ora thousand fubje&s, without running into the common topicks. Addison.-The hiftory of the Royal Society fhews how well philofophy becometh a narration: the progrefs of knowledge

is as entertaining as that of arms. Felton on the is, in itfelf, the very height and line of poetry, which, Clafficks. 7. To admit with fatisfaction.-Reafon by a kind of enthufiojm, or extraordinary emotion can never permit the mind to entertain probabi-' of foul, makes it feem to us that we behold thele lity in oppofition to knowledge and certainty. things which the poet paints. I rgd. Juv. Pref.

Locke.

* ENTERTAINER. n. f. [from entertain.] 1. He that keeps others in his fervice-He was, in his nature and conftitution of mind, not very apprehentive or forecafting of future events afar off, but an entertainer of fortune by the day. Pacon's Henry VII. 2. He that treats others at his table. It is little the fign of a wife or good man to furfer temperance to be tranfgrefled, in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer. Atterbury. 3. He that pleafes, diverts, or amufes. * ENTERTAINMENT. n. J. [irom entertain.] 1. Converfation. 2. Treatment at the table; convivial provifion.

Arrived there, the little houfe they fill, Ne look for entertainment where none was; Rett is their feaft, and all things at their will; The nobleft mind the best contentment has. Fairy Queen. 3. Hofpitable reception. 4. Reception; admifhon. It is not eafy to imagine how it thould at firft gain entertainment, but much more difficult to conceive how it fhould be univerfally propapated. Tillation. 5. The ftate of being in pay as foldiers or fervants.

Have you an army ready, fay you? -A most royal one. The centurions and their charges diftinctly billeted, already in the entertainment, and to be on foot at an hour's warning. Shak. 6. Payment of foldiers or fervants. Now obfolete. The entertainment of the general, upon his firft arrival, was but fix fhillings and eight pence. Davies. 7. Amufement; divertion.-Be. caufe he that knoweth leat is fitteft to afk quef tions, it is more reafon, for the entertainment of the time, that he afk me queftions than that I afk you. Bacon.-Pafiions ought to be our fervants, and not our mafters; to give us fome agitation for entertainment, but never to throw reafon out of its feat. Temple. 8. Dramatick performance; the lower comedy.-A great number of dramatick entertainments are not comedies, but five act farces. Gay.

ENTERTISSUED. adj. [entre and tissue.] Interwoven' or intermixed with various colours or fubftances.

The fword, the mace, the crown imperial, The entertiued robe of gold and pearl. Shak. To ENTHRONE. v. n. [from throne.] 1. To place on a regal feat.

On a tribunal filver'd,

(2.) ENTHUSIASM. (§ 1. def. 3.) may be farther defined an ecftafy of the in nd, wherely it is led to think and imagine things in a fublime, fur-" prifing, yet probabie manner. This is the enthu fiafm felt in poctry, oratory, mufic, panting, fculpture, &c.

(3.) ENTHUSIASM, in a religious fenfe, (§ 1. def. 1) implies a tranfport of the mind, whereby it fancies itself inspired with fome revelation, impulfe, &c. from heaven. Mr Locke gives the following defcription of religious enthufiat. all ages, men in whom melancholy his mixed with devotion, or whofe conceit of then ▾olves bas ruifod them into an opinion of a great familiarity with God, and a nearer admittance to his favour than is afforded to others, have often flattered themfelves with a perfuafion of an immediate intercourfe with the Deity, and frequent communications from the Divine Spirit. Their minds being thus prepared, whatever groundless opinion comes to fettle ittelf ftrongly upon their fancies, is an illumination from the ipirit of God. And whatsoever odd action they find in themfelves a ftrong inclination to do, that impulfe is concluded to be a call or direction from heaven, and must be obeyed. It is a commiffion from above, and they cannot err in executing it. This I take to be properly enthufiafm, which, though arifing from the conceit of a warm and overweening brain, works, when it once gets footing, more powerfully on the perfuafions and actions of men, than either reafon or revelation, or both together men being mot forwardly obedient to the impulfes they receive from themfelves."

-* ENTHUSIAST. n.s. [wder.sw.] 1. One who vainly imagines a private revelation; one who has a vain confidence of his intercourte with God.—Let an enthufiaft be principled that he or his teacher is infpired, and acted by an immediate communication of the Divine Spirit, and you in vain bring the evidence of clear reafons against his doctrine. Locke. 2. One of a hot imagination, or violent paffions. Chapman feems to be of an arrogant turn, and an enthufiaft in poetry. Pope. 3. One of elevated fancy, or exalted ideas.→→

At laft divine Cecilia came, Inventrefs of the vocal frame;

The tweet enthufiaft from her facred flore, Enlarg'd the foriner narrow bounds, And added length to folemn founds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown beCleopatra and himfelf, in chairs of gold, fore. Dryden. Were publicly enthron'd. Shakefp. ENTHUSIASTICAL. ) adi. [uduciasings.) 1. 2. To inveft with fovereign authority.—This pope ENTHUSIASTICK. Perfuaded of fome was no fooner elected and enthroned, but that he communication with the Deity. He pretended began to exercise his new rapines. Ayliffe's Parerg, not to any feraphick enthufiaftical raptures, or ini(1.) ENTHUSIASM... [9.] 1. A mitable unaccountable tranfports of devotion. Cavain belief of private revelation; a vain confidence lamy. 2. Vehemently hot in any caufe. 3. Eleof div ae favour or communication.-Enthurojm vated in fancy; exhaled in ideas. An enthufiaflick is founded neither on reafon nor divine revelation, prophetick ftyle, by reafon of the eagernets of the but rifes from the conceits of a warmed or over- fancy, doth not always follow the even thread of weening brain. Locke. 2. Heat of imagination; difcourfe. Burnet. violence of paffion; confidence of opinion. Elevation of fancy; exaltation of ideas. Iming

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(1.) * ENTHYMEME. n. f. [9μna] An argument confifting, only of an antecedent and

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confequential propofition; a fyllogifm where the major propofition is fuppreffed, and only the minor and confequence produced in words.-Playing much upon the fimple or luftrative argumentation, to induce their enthymemes unto the people, they take up popular conceits. Brown. What is an enthymeme? quoth Cornelius: Why, an enthymeme, replied Crambe, is when the major is indeed married to the minor, but the marriage kept fecret. Arb. and Pope.

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(2.) ENTHYMEME, in logic and rhetoric, [from , to think, or conceive, a compound of and Sus, mind,] is the moft fimple and elegant of all argumentations; being what a man, in arguing closely, commonly makes, without attending to the form. Thus, that verse remaining of Ovid's tragedy, intitled Medea, contains an enthymeme; Servare potui, perdere an poffum rogas: "I was able to save you; confequently to have destroyed you." All the beauty would have been loft, had all the propofitions been expreffed; the mind is displeased with a rehearsal of what is no ways neceffary. Sometimes, alfo, the two propofitions of an enthymeme are both included in a fingle proposition, which Ariftotle calls an enthymematical fentence, and gives this inftance thereof: Mortal do not bear an immortal hatred. The whole enthymeme would be, Thou art mortal; let not, therefore, thy hatred be immortal.

* To ENTICE. v. a. [of uncertain etymology.] To allure; to attract; to draw by blandifhments or hopes to fomething finful or deftructive.-The readieft way to entangle the mind with falfe doc. trine, is first to entice the will to wanton living. Afcham.

*ENTICEMENT. n. f. [from entice.] 1. The act or practice of alluring to ill.-Suppofe we that the facred word of God can at their hands receive due honour, by whofe enticement the holy ordinances of the church endure every where open contempt. Hooker. 2. The means by which one is allured to ill; blandishment; allurement.-In all these instances we must separate intreaty and enticements from deceit or violence. Taylor.

* ENTICER. n. f. [from entice.] One that allures to ill.

ENTICINGLY. adj. [from entice.] Charmingly; in a winning manner.-She ftrikes a lute well, and fings moft enticingly. Addison.

ENTIENGIA, a fingular quadruped of Africa, the kingdom of Congo, which Mr Cruttwell feys, "never fets its feet upon the ground, but it dies foon after. It keeps itself conftantly upon the trees. It is very finall and its skin is fo beautfully spotted, that none but the king of Congo, the princes of the blood, and fuch nobles as obtain the privilege from him, have the liberty of wearing it: And even the kings of Loango, Caconga, and Gey, receive that extraordinary fur as a confiderable prefent, and a particular favour." This animal is not mentioned, (at least under this name) by Linnæus, Dr Gmelin, or Mr Kerr.

* ENTIERTY. n. f. [entiert, French.] The whole; not barely a part.-Sometimes the attor y thrusteth into the writ the uttermoft quanti:y; or else setteth down an entierty, where but a Wiety was to be passed. Bacon.

* ENTIRE. adj. [entier, French; integer, Lat.]

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1. Whole; undivided.-It is not fafe to divide but to extol the entire, ftill in general. Bacon. Unbroken; complete in its parts.-An antique model of the famous Laocoon is entire in those parts where the ftatue is maimed. Addison. 3. Full; complete; comprising all requifites in itself.

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The church of Rome hath rightly confidered that public prayer is a duty entire in itself, a duty requifite to be performed much oftener than fermons can be made. Hooker.-An action is entire when it is complete in all its parts, or, as Ariftotle defcribes it, when it confifts of a beginning, a middle, and an end. Spectator, N° 267. 4. Sincere; hearty.-He run a courfe more entire with the king of Arragon, but more laboured and officious with the king of Caftile. Bacon. 5. Firm; fure; folid; fixed.

Entire and fure the monarch's rule muft prove,

Who founds her greatnefs on her subjects love. Prior.

6. Unmingled; unallayed.—

Wrath fhall be no more

Thenceforth, but in thy prefence joy entire.

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7. Honeft: firmly adherent; faithful.-No man had ever a heart more entire to the king, the church, or his country; but he never ftudied the eafieft ways to thofe ends. Clarendon.-They had many perfons, of whofe entire affections they were well affured. Clarendon. 8. In full strength; with vigour unabated; with power unbroken.

Then back to fight again, new breathed and
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* ENTIRELY. adv. [from entire.] whole; without a divifion.—Euphrates, running, finketh partly into the lakes of Chaldea, and falls not intirely into the Perfian fea. Raleigh. 2. Com. pletely: fully

Here finish'd he, and all that he had made View'd, and behold! ail was entirely good. Milton.

General confent entirely altered the whole frame of their government. Swift. 3. With adherence firm faithfully.

Which when his penfive lady faw from far, Great woe and forrow did her foul affay;

As weening that the fad end of the war, And 'gan to highest God entirely pray. Fairy 2 * ENTIRENESS. n. [from entire.] 1. Totality; completeness; fulness.-In an arch, each fingle ftone, which if fevered from the reft, would be perhaps defenceless, is fufficiently fecured by the folidity and entireness of the whole fabrick, of which it is a part. 2. Honefty; integrity.

*To ENTITLE. v. a. (from entituler, Fr.) 1. To grace or dignify with a title or honourable appellation. 2. To give a tittle or difcriminative appellation; as, to entitle a book.-Befides the Scripture, the books which they call ecclefiaftical were thought not unworthy to be brought into publick audience, and with that name they extitled the books which we term Apocryphal. Hooker. 3. To fuperfcribe, or prefix as a title.How ready zeal for party is to entitle Chriftianity to their defigns, and to charge atheifin on those who will not fubmit. Locke. We have been entitled, and have had our names prefixed at length

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to whole volumes of mean productions. Swift. 4. To give a claim to any thing.-He entitled himself to the continuance of the divine protection and goodness, by humiliation and prayer. Atterbury. 5. To grant any thing as claimed by a title.This is to entitle God's care how and to what we please. Locke.

(1)* ENTITY. n. f. [entitas, low Latin Something which really is; a real being.

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Dear hope! earth's dowry and heaven's debt, The entity of things that are not yet: Crashaw. Subt'left, but fureft being. -Fortune is not real entity, nor phyfical effence, but a mere relative fignification. Bentley. 2. A particular species of being.-All eruptions of air, though small and flight, give an entity of found, which we call crackling, puffing and fpitting, as in bay salt and by leaves, caft into the fire. Bacon.

(2.) ENTITY. See ENS, N° 1.

ENTLIBUCH, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of Lucern, the principal place of a Cailwick, about 27 miles long, and 18 broad. It is 12 miles W. of Lucern.

* To ENTOIL. v. a. [from toil.] To enfnare; to entangle; to bring into toils or nets--He cut off their land forces from their fhips and entoiled both their navy and their camp with a greater power than theirs, both by sea and land. Bacon.

T. ENTOMB. v. a. {from tomb.] To put into a tomb; to bury.-Proceffions were firft begun for the interring of holy martyrs, and the vifiting of those places where they were entombed. Hooker.

ENTOMOLOGICAL, adj. [from entomology.] Belonging to the fcience of entomology. ENTOMOLOGIST, n. f. [from entomology.] A writer on entomology: one who defcribes the natural history of infects.

ENTOMOLOGY.

DEFINITION and HISTORY of the SCIENCE. ENTO 'NTOMOLOGY, n. f. [from vrou an infect, and yes, a difcourfe,] the fcience of INSECTS a branch of ZooLOGY, which treats exclufively of this clafs of animals.

The name of this fcience appears to be extremely modern, as the word ENTOMOLOGY is not to be found in Johnson's, Sheridan's, Bailey's Barclay's, Afh's, Jones's, or any other English Dictionary that we have met with; nor even in Chambers's Cyclopædia, improved by Dr Rees, in its order. It is mentioned, however, in this laft work, under the article ZOOLOGY as a part of that science. Mr Chambers and Dr Rees, indeed, feem to think that such distinctions and fub-divifions of zoology, as Entomology, Ichthyology, Ornithology, &c. are "no better than thofe of the families of these things; and that the authors may as well fet up separate studies (of Botany) under the names of Bulbology, Umbelliferolgy, and the like, as thofe.' But the obvious answer to this is, that, there is a much greater difference between an infect, and a bird, fish, or quadruped, than between a bulbous and umbelliferous, or any other plant. And in deed, if there were no other confideration, than the vast variety and almost infinite number of infects, thefe alone would be fufficient to eftablish the propriety of conftituting ENTOMOLOGV a diftinct branch of fcience. For numerous and various as the objects of botany undoubtedly are, yet thofe of entomology are vaftly more fo: every individual plant almost being a kind of little world for a numerous fpecies of minute inhabitants of

the infect tribe.

However modern the name of this branch of science may be, the study itself is undoubtedly very ancient. SOLOMON, who is perhaps the moft ancient zoologist, as well as botanift on record, is exprefsly faid (i Kings, iv. 33.) to have" spoken alfo" (or written) of creeping things" and may there

fore be ranked as the earliest entomologift we know of. It is to be regretted that his works on this, as well as on many other subjects are loft. But without attemping to enumerate the various ancient authors, who fince ARISTOTLE and PLINY, have written upon this branch of natural history, wefhall only mention here, that the great LINNAUS may be justly confidered as the father of ENTOMOLOGY as a diftinct branch of science. Several mo. dern authors, however, contributed to pave the way for Linnæus's improvement of entomology. Among these none has greater merit than the illuftrious Dr SWAMMERDAM, that great inquirer into nature, who, by his ingenious and nice contrivances for diffecting the minutest infects, opened a field of investigation, and a fund of science, formerly quite unoccupied, and unknown.

Infects being endowed with the various powers of creeping, flying, and fwimming, there is fcarce any place, however remote and obfcure, in which they are not to be found. The great confufion which appeared to the ancients to arife from their number, made them never attempt to reduce them to any fyftem. Swammerdam obferved, that their metamorphofes were divided by nature into several states or orders. Their external appearance alfo carried with it fome mark of diftinction: fo that entomologists called all thofe of the coleoptera order, Scarabei, or beetles; thofe of the lepidoptera, Papiliones, butterflies; those of the gymnoptera order that had only two wings, Musca, flies; and those of the fame order that had four wings, Apes, bees. No farther progrefs was made in the fyftematic part of this science till the time of Linnæus. He was the first who undertook to deter

mine the genera, and affign them their proper characters, in the Syftema Natura; and thus reduced this fcience to a fyftematic form. This fyftem, in fubfequent editions, was confiderably enriched and amended by him, infomuch that the fcience of entomology now fhines forth in its full

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Juftre. He firft inftituted natural orders, and reduced them into genera by expreffive names; determined an infinite number of species in the Fauna Suecica and Majeun Regine; collected, with incredible pains the fynonymons names of the variou authors who had written on them; and laft ly added their deferiprions, and the places in which they were to be found. So that the fyftem of this iluftrious author will lead any perfon, without the affiflance of a maiter, for the mott part eafily to ascertain the name of any infect he may meet, with. Before his time, fcarce more than 200 in fects were known: whereas, in the last edition of his fyftem, he has determined the names of nearly 3000 diftinct fpecies; though this is not the fixth part of the number that is now known.

Notwithstanding the great degree of perfection, to which Linnæus had brought entomology, feveral authors have fince made confiderable alterations in his fyftem. Among thefe, the most diftinguished are GEOFFROY, SCOPOLI, and SCHAFFER. The firft of thefe entomologists, in his Histoire Abregré des Infedles, published at Paris in 1764, has, befides changing the orders, or firft grand divifions of the Linnæan fyftem, formed from the different families of Linnæan genera many new genera; "fome of them" (fays Mr THO. PATTINSON YEATS, in the Preface to his Inftitutions of Entomology, p. vi.) "very judicioully; others perhaps without fufficient grounds."- Scopoli, (he adds,) in his En-. tomologia Carniolica, publifhed at Vienna in 1763, has made few alterations in the Linnæan fytiem, but those feem every one to be well founded, and his specific characters equal thofe of Linnæus. Schafer, in his Elementa Entomologie, printed at Ratisbon in 1756, has followed Geoffroy with very few and inconfiderable variations; but his figures convey a pretty good idea of his genera." Mr Yeats allo mentions the fyftem of PODA, a Jefuit, as “a work much praised by Scopoli, which alone is fufficient to convey an advantageous idea of it;" but adds, that he "had not been able to procure it, nor learn how or in what he differs from Linnatis."

On the whole, as the Linnan fyftem of Entomology is ftill efteemed to be at least as perfect as thofe of any of his fuccefors, it will be fufficient here to give the young entomologift a view of it, with a few of the fynonima of other authors, whom he may afterwards confult if he inclines. SECT. I. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS on INSECTS.

SOME natural hiftorians confider infects as the most imperfect of all animals, while others preter them to thofe that are larger. One mark of their imperfection is faid to be, that many of them can live a long time, though deprived of thofe organs which are neceflary to life in the higher ranks of nature. Many of them are furnished with lungs and an heart, like the nobler animals; yet the caterpillar continues to live, though its heart and lungs, which is often the cafe, are entirely eaten away. It is not, however, from their conformation alone, that infects are inferior to other animals, but from their inftinéts alfo. It is true, that the ant and the be prefent us with ftriking inftances of affiduity; yet even there are inferior to the maths of fagacity difplayed by the larger

animals. A bee taken from the fwarm is totally helpless and inactive, incapable of giving the fmalleft variations to its inflincts. It has but one fingle method of operating; and if put from that, it can turn to no other. In the purfuits of the hound, there is fomething like choice; but in the labours of the bee, the whole appears like neceffity and compulfion. All other animals are capable of fome degree of education; their inftincts may be fupprefied or altered; the dog may be taught to fetch and carry, the bird to whistle a tune, and the ferpent to dance: but the infect has only one invariable method of operating; no arts can turn it from its inftincts; and indeed its life is too short for inftruction, as a single feafon often terminates its exiftence.

The amazing number of infects is alfo reckoned an imperfection. It is a rule that obtains through the whole creation, that the nobler animals are flowly produced, and that nature acts with a kind of dignified economy; but the meaner births are lavished in profufion, and thousands are brought forth merely to fupply the neceffities of the more favourite part of the creation. Of all the productions in nature, infects are by far the moft numerous. The vegetables which cover the furface of the earth bear no proportion to the multitudes of infects; and though, at firft fight, herbs of the field feem to be the parts of organized nature produced in the greatest abundance, yet, upon more minute infpeétion, we find every plant fupporting a mixture of fearce perceptible creatures, that fill up the compass of youth, vigour, and age, in the fpace of a few days existence.

In many places of Africa, and most warm countries, infects are equally numerous and noxious: And even in Lapland, and fome parts of America, they are faid to be fo numerous, that if a candle is lighted, they fwarm about it in fuch multitudes, that it is inftantly extinguifhed by them. In thofe parts of the world, the miferable inhabitants are forced to finear their bodies and faces with tar, or fome other unctuous compofition, to protect them from the ilings of their minute opponents.

SWAMMERDAM, however, argues for the perfection of infects in the following manner: "After an attentive examination (fays he) of the nature and anatomy of the finalleit as well as the largeft animals I cannot help allowing the leaft an equal, or perhaps a fuperior degree of dignity. "If, while we diffect with care the larger animals, we are filled with wonder at the elegant difpofition of their parts, to what an height is our aftonishment raifed, when we difcover all these parts arranged, in the leaft, in the fame regular manner! Notwithstanding the fmallness of ants, nothing hinders our preferring them to the largest animals, if we confider either their unwearied diligence, their wonderful powers, or their inimitable propentity to labour. Their amazing love to their young is ftill more unparalleled aniong the larger clans. They not only daily carry them to fuch places as may afford them food, but if by accident they are killed, and even cut into pieces, they will, with the utmost tenderness, carry them away piecemeal in their arms. Who can fhow fuch au example among the larger animals, which

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