Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1836-03-25

Instinct of .Animais. Certainly they do
afford the most striking proofs of an intell.
gent cause, as well as Of unity of design
in the world. The work of bees is among
the most remarkable of facts in both the
respects. The form is in every country
the snme--ihe proportions accurately alike
the size the very same to the fraction of
a line, 60 where you viii; and the form is
proved to oe that which the most refined
analysis has enabled mathemaiicians TO dis
cover as Of all others the best adapted for
the purposes of saving room and work, and
materials. This discovery was only made
about century ago; nay, the instrument
that enabled US to find it out .furuionat
cdlculas- unknown half century be .
fore that application to its power, and vet
the bees had been for thousands of years, in
all countries, unerrngly working accord.
ing to this fixed rule, choosing the same
exact ahgle of 100 degrees for the lncna
ton Of the sides of its little room, which
every one had for ages known to the best
possible angle, but also choosing the same
exact angles of 10 and 10 degrees, for the
inclination of the roof, which no one had
discovered till the 9Th century, when Mac
LAURA solved that most curious problem Of
marina minima, the means of investigating
which had not existed ill the century be.
fore, when Newton invented the caicuias
whereby such problems can now be easily
worked. 1t is impossible to conceive any
thing more striking as a proof of refined
skill than the creation of such instincts and
It is q skill altogether applied to the forma.
ton of intellectual existence.
SOUND DoCTRINE. The following pas.
sage is from an eloquent sermon recently
preached in Boston, by the Rev. N. l..
rockingham.
Take the laws as they are;-they are
the only barrier between you aud the rob
hers violence and the assassin's knife; and
would say, revere them. Thwart them
not. Stand by their decision. Come 20
their help, all good men aud true. Let
them not be made Intellectual by your weak
reluctances. Let them not be brought in,
tomistrnst by your objections and commu.
tations and outcries, Till they have no ma.
jesty left. Let them not be undermined by
the wasteful and washy tide of mistaken
philanthropy. In the name of the divine
equity, for the sake of the common pro-
lection, stay them not in their righteous
though terrible gongs. Every attempt to
invalidate their spoken decree is public
wrong. Every voice that has sworn to
judge only according to the law and the cv
idence, and then refuses to speak but accor-
eng TO private pity, is false to its oaths. "
Multifarious as are the forms in which
our brethren Of the press are wont to press
upon the minds of their subscribers, the
propriety Of the payments, that one thing
needfu to the efficiency of a newspaper;
the following, from the Boston Pilot, strikes
us as being worthy of a place among the
most ingenious of such effusions;
"a person being dangerously sick, was
visited by clergyman, who seeing the
poor fellow give way to espondency, kind
iy inquired if any hejnous sin lay heavily
on his heart. The sick man replied with a
sigh, that he had been guilty OF grievous
sin, but its magnitude was SO great that he
was almost ashamed to name it. The cler
gyman asked him if he had been an unknd
husband' No, A tyrannical father? No. A
treacherous friend' No; but have done a
great deal worse than either. Have you
violated any of the commandments No, !
believe mott but alas! blubbered out the de-
sparing invald-"I hare takea .NetOspa-
per tDo yearS, and neglected 10 pay for IT."