REGENERATE CREATION. 



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bent on ill or employed on good, it is all the same, she is 

 one of the race of spiders, and there is no bespeaking favour 

 for them, they are still artful, cruel creatures, even, as we 

 began by observing, most close and unpleasing resemblances 

 of our worst selves. So we must go on hating spiders to the 

 end, not to the end of time, but only to the beginning of 

 that happy period when man shall cease to ensnare and prey 

 on man, and to feast off lamb and mutton ; and when, grown 

 gentle with all others of regenerate creation, the spider herself, 

 no longer the ferocious huntress or the sly Jilandiere, 



' Pretendant enlacer tout insect volant," 



shall become again the harmless tapissiere she was supposed 

 formerly (doubtless, when she lived in Eden) to have been. 





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