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THE CAUSE AND THE CAUSER OF THE CAUSE. "Be ye sure that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves."-Plsaha c. 3. DECIDEDLY dead, gentlemen !" Such was Dr. Earwig's verdict upon the body of a fine young moth which had been found prostrate and motionless at the foot of an orchis plant in full flower. And Dr. Earwig was a professor, and knew what he was about-had, moreover, walked to and fro over the moth's body-touched it with his feelers, nipped it with his pincers-and it had not twitched once. Besides it was stiff and cold. The professor was shy by nature, but learning gives confidence, and he spoke his mind boldly when he spoke it at all.