Life in the Insect World
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Life in the Insect World: Or, Conversations Upon Insects, Between an Aunt and Her Nieces In offering to my friends a little book, written under circumstances of peculiar disadvantage, I feel that justice to myself requires an explanation of these circumstances, and that this explanation will sufficiently account for my having conceived the idea of writing a book at all. Confined to my bed with a painful disease, and suffering from an affection of the eyes which rendered me incapable of reading, writing or doing any thing which requires fixed sight, idleness became almost insupportable; I longed for something to do; something which would pleasantly and profitably occupy my time, and divert my thoughts from bodily suffering. But my situation seemed to cut off every resource. At length I procured an indented card upon which I learned to write with closed or bandaged eyes; and rejoicing in this newly acquired sense, for such it seemed to me, I was anxious to turn it to advantage. From childhood I have been interested in insects. In their infinite variety and exceeding beauty; in the admirable construction even of the most minute among them; and in the operations of their instinct, they manifest in a peculiarly interesting manner, the power and goodness of the Creator. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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