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THE CAUSE AND THE CAUSER. 41 of the race-experience of other races besides their own! "Jesting apart, it is for you to judge whether accident, as Bumble major would say, or the separate race-experience of either flower or insect, as Bumble minor holds, or of the foreign body itself, is accountable for the marvellous facts we have been considering; or whether, as I venture to assert" (here Sir Helix lifted his head off the ground as if he would fain creep upwards by the air)," the whole interesting, most complex process does not force us upon faith in the contriving intelligence of some agent beyond either insect or flower in power, and acquainted equally with the race-experience of both." A tumult of mingled dissent and assent here interrupted the sitting magistrate's speech ; and it was only after a considerable time, and amidst much lingering disturbance, he got a hearing again. Gentlemen, I have heard but too plainly the ridicule cast upon me for asserting my belief in a power I cannot see, and of which I know little, but that (judging by what it accomplishes) it