The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles 



position by my wiles, I recognized the un- 

 certainty in which the evidence of physical 

 science leaves us; and, in the impossibility of 

 finding any other reply, I suggested a special 

 sense, the sense of open space. Instructed 

 by the Sirex, the Buprestes, the Longicorns, 

 I am once again compelled to make the same 

 suggestion. It is not that I care for the 

 expression: the unknown cannot be named 

 in any language. It means that the hermits 

 in the dark know how to find the light by the 

 shortest road; it is the confessions of an 

 ignorance which no honest observer will blush 

 to share. Now that the evolutionists' in- 

 terpretations of instinct have been recognized 

 as worthless, we all come to that stimulating 

 maxim of Anaxagoras', which laconically 

 sums up the result of my researches: 



" Nous irdvTa huKouiirjcrt. Mind ordcrs all 

 things." 



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