Nothing so constituted in Nature, but a superficial Observer may construe as a Blemish to the Creation; but to a more penetrating Eye, those imaginary Blemishes have their Convenience and Use, and appear to be the Product of perfect Intelligence and Wisdom.
LII. The Bom-Snake, is another Brazilian Reptile, call’d Bom from the Noise it makes in its Motion. It is of a prodigious large Size, but is class’d among the Innocent, that do no manner of hurt to Persons, viz. that can endure a little Sound, arising from a Propagation of the Pulse of the Air.
An innocent Serpent, no Contradiction. There is good among the bad in the moral World.
Virtue——needs no Defence;
The surest Guard is Innocence:
None knew, till Guilt created Fear,
What Darts and poison’d Arrows were.
Integrity undaunted goes
Thro’ Lybian Sands, and Scythian Snows.
In Paraguay, or La Plata in America, is a famous white Bird, which, though it has a very small Body, has a Voice like a Bell, and therefore the Natives call it Guirapo, that is, the Sounding-Bird.