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insect, having satisfied its quest, gradually worms its way 

 out, the labellum springs back into place, the lip of the 

 anther is lifted up, and the viscid mass from the rostellum, 

 forced into the anther, glues the pollen mass to the insect 

 and thus insures its transportation to some other flower. 



Darwins and Mullers, it is true, are not born every day, 

 but every man has within him the same elements of success 

 if he will only use them aright, bringing to bear upon each 

 problem the same patient, intelligent observation, adding 

 link to link, till at last the lengthening chain stands per- 

 fect and complete. 



And yet there will always remain some problems that 

 will baffle the closest scrutiny. "The deeper science searches 

 into the mysteries of nature, the more clearly it evolves 

 the simplicity of the means used and the infinite diversity 

 of results. Thus from under the edge of the veil which we 

 are enabled to lift, a glimpse of the harmonious plan of the 

 universe is revealed to us. But as for the primary causes, 

 they remain beyond the ken of mortal mind; they lie 

 within another domain; which man's intellect will ever 

 strive to enter and search, but in vain." 



The German scholar who, after a life of patient study of 

 a single word, the relative pronoun, regretted on his death- 

 bed that his efforts had been scattered and that he had not 

 confined himself to a single letter of the Greek alphabet, 

 is but a type of the labor required in establishing a single 

 fact. Diffusion is weakness, concentration, strength; and 

 the man who with divided energies studies a mass of facts 

 is outstripped in the race by him who confines himself to 

 one. It takes ten years at least, said President Clark, to 

 establish one agricultural fact; but it is on the aggregation 



