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Sea, and there lay their eggs and die. In the course 

 of time, the young eels return — how, we have no 

 slightest idea — to the respective continents and 

 rivers from which their parents came, and the 

 miracle is complete. 



Year by year the breeding ranges of all the crea- 

 tures in the world become more limited. No week 

 passes but sees the complete wiping out of some 

 bird or beast or insect. The way of the bird in the 

 air is ever more perilous as the beacons and lights 

 of humanity increase. The winter homes are being 

 rendered barren by vast rubber plantations and 

 other man-fashioned what-nots. Throughout a few 

 more decades only will the old migrations still hold. 

 For no matter how simple and easy the shortening 

 or rerouting of a flight might be, the last surviving 

 bird in which glows the spark of this possessing in- 

 stinct will endure the new dangers, will strive to 

 overcome the appalling handicaps thrown across its 

 path. The method and completion of an instinct 

 originating before man came to know he was him- 

 self can never be altered or turned aside in the few 

 brief years of his dominance. Only the death of the 

 Jast bird or animal or insect can achieve that. 



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