Further Observations 



to carry on alone, the widow that is to be 

 will do the rest. The father may now die; 

 the household will not suffer unduly. 



The father's premature end may well be 

 caused by the melancholy due to inaction. 

 He is a hard worker easily upset by the bore- 

 dom of inactivity. In my apparatus, he 

 pines away, after the first cake has been 

 made, because the workshop is brought to a 

 compulsory standstill, the rest of the glass 

 having no accommodation for superimposed 

 cells, which later would hinder the emergence 

 of the family. For lack of space, the 

 mother ceases to lay eggs; and the father, 

 having nothing more to do, departs to die 

 outside. Idleness has killed him. 



In the open, the space underground is in- 

 definite; it allows such a group of cells as is 

 needed by the mother's fruitfulness to be 

 formed at the bottom of the shaft; but an- 

 other difficulty arises, and a most serious one. 

 When I myself am the purveyor, there is no 

 fear of famine. I enquire daily into the 

 state of the stores and I renew as required 

 the available provisions scattered over the 

 surface. My prisoners, without being over- 

 loaded, are always in the midst of plenty. 

 It is a very different matter in the fields. 

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