The question concerning the sensibility, intelligence, and instinctive actions of insects / [Charles David Badham].

  • Badham, David, 1806-1857.
Date:
[1837]
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Credit: The question concerning the sensibility, intelligence, and instinctive actions of insects / [Charles David Badham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has the same effect upon the cattle flies, who may object to rain on their own account, but would be very unreason¬ able in stinging horse or cow as if they occasioned it. Who does not know that a multitude of flies sting, and only sting before rain ?—From all which considerations, the sting in insects not only may, but I think must have been conferred for purposes widely different from those popularly attributed to it. “ When,” says Cowley, “ we trust man concerning God, we then trust not God con¬ cerning man.”