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The Dervish in the Eastern Fable claimed to have discovered the language of birds, while to the vulgar then notes were mere inarticulate sources without passion + without meaning. The entomologist does not indeed pretend to understand the language of insects, for as they all breathe thro spiracles or branchiae their mouths are everlastingly dumb; but from signs well-known to him he can interpret their actions & recognize at a glance what object they are pursuing, whether sport, or love, or war or food for themselves, or food for their future progeny or the construction of habitations, either for themselves or for that future progeny which they are doomed never to behold. Under every stone, under every clod, even under the most despised substances, there is a little world in miniature opened to his eye, and there scarcely grown a plant, that which contains in Nature's own hieroglyphs a whole chapter of Natural History written by the finger of the great Author of our being.