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I believe that on my theory no account need be taken of 

 the " prodigious amount of difference between the fertile 

 and sterile individuals of many insects." 



1 believe that my theory is perfectly correct, although 

 there is a ' climax of the difficulty ' beyond all these that I 

 have yet stated, some of the neuters differing even from each 

 other to an (i almost incredible degree; " some "with jaws 

 and instincts extraordinarily different ;" others with forms 

 " the use of which is quite unknown." 



I believe that I am right, and all the world else wrong, 

 although it will be thought that I have an " overweening 

 confidence in my own wisdom," which makes me "not 

 admit that such wonderful and well-established facts at once 

 annihilate my theory." 



I believe that I must be right, although I can't " pretend 

 that the facts given in this chapter (VII.) strengthen in 

 any degree my theory," and all that I can say is that they 

 do not " annihilate it;" ergo I must be right. 



I believe that the sterility of hybrids is no disproof of 

 my theory of natural selection, which is that it acts for the 

 good of the creatures which exercise it, although it could 

 not possibly be of any advantage to the several animals, 



