text:  191--is he much wiser than those entomologists whom he had been previously criticising for "maintaining that the wing of an insect is a modification of its leg?" Verily we suspect that if Martinus Scriblerus had had his attention drawn to this manner of viewing things it would have greatly excited his learned ingenuity; he would probably have begun to apply this scientific method to a variety of things and found a unity of composition never before dreamt of