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worm's, too faithful to its mulberry-leaf. . . . Lar- 

 vae that live on a vegetable diet will not by any 

 means lend themselves to a change of food. Each 

 has its plant or group of plants, apart from which 

 nothing is acceptable. 1 



Science as this great naturalist understands 

 it is amiable and by no means pedantic; full 

 of sympathy with the humble, since he him- 

 self has never ceased to be one of them, he 

 does not disdain to consider their least pre- 

 occupations, and to become, by turns, their 

 master and their disciple. 



1 Souvenirs, ill., pp. 297-299. 



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