Insect manufactures

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION, APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.LONDON:PRINTED FOR THESOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY,GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDSAND 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE.1847.

If we are struck with wonder and admiration at the progress of the arts and manufactures, and have daily reason to congratulate ourselves on the skill and ingenuity of our fellow-creatures, by which our comforts and conveniences are so much increased; it must also occasionally have crossed our minds, that some of the meaner creatures, though not gifted with our reasoning powers, and therefore not able to profit by the experience of the past, are yet employed in their several departments, and according to their several wants, in exceedingly curious and useful manufactures, mostly designed for the shelter and preservation of themselves or their offspring, but serving, not unfrequently, a higher purpose, in administering to the wants of mankind.