AMPHIBIANS—GOIN 445 
the amphibians are either, evolutionarily speaking, still trying this 
method or that to avoid leaving their eggs in open water, or else, since 
reproduction in water seems inevitable, have, as a Chinese philosopher 
might have advised, learned to relax and enjoy it. 
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