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steal the much -sought liquid without any 

 compensatory gift of nourishment. 1 



What does the community at large, so 

 careful of your comforts, expect from you? 

 Surely the honey-dew and the milk of par- 

 adise secreted from your classical exuda- 

 toria, which we lap up greedily in recen- 

 sions, monographs, commentaries, histo- 

 ries, translations, and brochures. Among 

 academic larvae you have for centuries ab- 

 sorbed the almost undivided interest of the 

 nest, and not without reason, for the very 

 life of the workers depends on the hor- 

 mones you secrete. Though small in num- 

 ber, your group has an enormous kinetic 

 value, like our endocrine organs. For man's 

 body, too, is a humming hive of working 

 cells, each with its specific function, all un- 

 der central control of the brain and heart, 

 and all dependent on materials called hor- 



^ 



1 Professor Wheeler in Proceedings of Amer. Phil. Soc.,vol. > 

 LVII, no. 4, 1918. 



