The Glow- Worm and Other Beetles 



a grave problem to whoso is capable of re- 

 flection. It compels us to accept this al- 

 ternative : either to credit the Dung-beetle's 

 flat head with the signal honour of having 

 of itself solved the geometrical problem of 

 preserved food, or else to fall back upon a 

 harmony ruling all things under the eye of 

 an Intelligence Which, knowing everything, 

 has provided for everything. 



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