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hear him speak of his own special department 

 and his observations therein, together with his 

 special conclusions therefrom ; but we have 

 always held fast to the inconsequence of the 

 implied assumption. For instance, Father 

 Wasmann is a specialist, he says, in an impor 

 tant department of science. His specialty is 

 the study of ants and cockroaches. Outside 

 of this he must, to use his own admission, "rely 

 upon the authority of others." Candidly, we 

 have always been of opinion that interesting 

 and all-absorbing as is the study of ants, it is 

 a strange place to seek for a solution of the 

 problems of the universe. Of the scientific 

 value of the conclusions from this department, 

 too, we must confess to a mild scepticism ever 

 since we once read in some of Darwin's own 

 observations in this field, an account of how he 

 once came upon a raid on the home of F. 

 Fusca by a body of F. Sanguinea, how 

 the conquerors were marching home in 

 triumph carrying the pupae of the vanquished, 

 how the survivors of the fray who had 

 lost their home were rushing about in great 

 agitation, and how "one was perched motion- 



