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The UNIVERSE.
Each Kind, by Reason guided, finds its Food,
Brings forth its Young, and guards the Infant Brood:
In short Excursions shews them how to rise,
To poise their Wings, and float along the Skies:
Before them lays the Dangers of the Plain,
And warns them of the Winds and of the Rain:
With Care paternal teaches them to know
To save themselves, and to offend the Foe.
Brings forth its Young, and guards the Infant Brood:
In short Excursions shews them how to rise,
To poise their Wings, and float along the Skies:
Before them lays the Dangers of the Plain,
And warns them of the Winds and of the Rain:
With Care paternal teaches them to know
To save themselves, and to offend the Foe.
Here too, their wise Creator has assign'd
A different Length of Life to every Kind:
These, breathe a longer, Those, a shorter Space:
Some very soon have run their destin'd Race;
Life, as it were, in Miniature display,
Are born, grow old, and die within a Day.[1]
A different Length of Life to every Kind:
These, breathe a longer, Those, a shorter Space:
Some very soon have run their destin'd Race;
Life, as it were, in Miniature display,
Are born, grow old, and die within a Day.[1]
And
- ↑ The famous Mr. Ray tells Us of an Insect which is hatched and dies in one Day, and probably there are many other Kinds, which as yet we know nothing of, whose Life is of no longer Duration. Hence we may naturally reflect that as we find, by the help of a Microscope, that Quantity is only computed to be Great or Small in proportion to what Objects our Eyes are capable of seeing without the Assistance of Glasses; so the Idea of Time seems confined to our Understanding by the same Rule, and the Life of that Creature which lives only one Day, may be of the same Length or Duration in proportion to itself, as the Term of an hundred Years is to Mankind: that is, three Minutes of such an Insect's Life is equal to a Year with Us.
