After all, an observer of nature finally becomes fond of objects that initially offend his senses, when he discovers in them the great purposiveness of their organizati and thus feasts his reason on his contemplation of them; and Leibniz put an insect, which he had carefully examined through the microscope, gently back again onto its leaf, because he had found himself instructed by the sight of it and had, as it were, received from it a benefaction.