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On The Variety Of Conjectures Concerning The Appearance And Departure Of Swallows.
which figure the ) ' might be presumed as naturally to assume ! Or , if it be said that space would be lost by the combination of circles , why do they not produce equilateral triangles or squares , which are figures equally regular with hexagons , and equall y lose no space ? It has been generally received that bees , like other animals unendued with reason , are guided by what is usually called instinct , which is more uniform than reasonand in which they are entirely passive ;
, that is , that they are directed in their operations by a superior intelligence ; and , therefore , it is the fashion with philosophers of the present day , because they will think differently from the million , to exclude a general as , well as a particular Providence from any concern in the things of this world , and to account for every thing upon physical and mechanical principles . The migration of birds , , not
merely of the swallow-tribes , but of a great variety of others , whom we never notice in the winter ( and are they too secreted in the clefts of rocks , ancl at the bottoms of lakes ?) the return of nearly the same numbers , the resort to the same habitations , seem the peculiar allotment of some superior agent , and are phenomena too uniform to be explained consistently on any other supposition . It was said of old
. , that " the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed time , and the turtle , and the crane , and the swallow , observe the time of their coming . " But this may be thought an obsolete authority from a book now out of use ; and perhaps the question may not be allowed to be decided till some means shall be adopted , to ascertain the region whence they come , and whither they go . But the opinion of their migration ,
exclusive of authority , rests , 1 flatter myself , upon a surer foundation than that of their continuance here in a torpid state ( for it has more of fact and observation to support it ) , is less encumbered with difficulties , and derogates not so much from the Deity as that which ascribes the miracle ( for such it must he esteemed , and not the less so for being constantly exhibited ) , ' not to providential interposition , but to causes , as it is supposed , more natural , but , without a Providence , equally inexplicable . CLERICUS .
Authentic And Interesting Narrative Of The Adventures Of The Mutineers
AUTHENTIC AND INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF THE MUTINEERS
WHO PIRATICALLY SEIZED HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BOUNTY
Continued from Page 272 . THOMPSON ' S present anxiety was in avoiding his own party , for he did not entertain the smallest suspicion of the natives becoming his enemies , who , as he thought , would leaye it to Christian VOL . Ill , Y y
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On The Variety Of Conjectures Concerning The Appearance And Departure Of Swallows.
which figure the ) ' might be presumed as naturally to assume ! Or , if it be said that space would be lost by the combination of circles , why do they not produce equilateral triangles or squares , which are figures equally regular with hexagons , and equall y lose no space ? It has been generally received that bees , like other animals unendued with reason , are guided by what is usually called instinct , which is more uniform than reasonand in which they are entirely passive ;
, that is , that they are directed in their operations by a superior intelligence ; and , therefore , it is the fashion with philosophers of the present day , because they will think differently from the million , to exclude a general as , well as a particular Providence from any concern in the things of this world , and to account for every thing upon physical and mechanical principles . The migration of birds , , not
merely of the swallow-tribes , but of a great variety of others , whom we never notice in the winter ( and are they too secreted in the clefts of rocks , ancl at the bottoms of lakes ?) the return of nearly the same numbers , the resort to the same habitations , seem the peculiar allotment of some superior agent , and are phenomena too uniform to be explained consistently on any other supposition . It was said of old
. , that " the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed time , and the turtle , and the crane , and the swallow , observe the time of their coming . " But this may be thought an obsolete authority from a book now out of use ; and perhaps the question may not be allowed to be decided till some means shall be adopted , to ascertain the region whence they come , and whither they go . But the opinion of their migration ,
exclusive of authority , rests , 1 flatter myself , upon a surer foundation than that of their continuance here in a torpid state ( for it has more of fact and observation to support it ) , is less encumbered with difficulties , and derogates not so much from the Deity as that which ascribes the miracle ( for such it must he esteemed , and not the less so for being constantly exhibited ) , ' not to providential interposition , but to causes , as it is supposed , more natural , but , without a Providence , equally inexplicable . CLERICUS .
Authentic And Interesting Narrative Of The Adventures Of The Mutineers
AUTHENTIC AND INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF THE MUTINEERS
WHO PIRATICALLY SEIZED HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BOUNTY
Continued from Page 272 . THOMPSON ' S present anxiety was in avoiding his own party , for he did not entertain the smallest suspicion of the natives becoming his enemies , who , as he thought , would leaye it to Christian VOL . Ill , Y y