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woods, or in any other wild places where thistles and other 

 wild flowers which bees are fond of are found, a hundred- 

 fold more than they do in gardens, and that if they are found 

 more or less numerously in gardens, it is only because of 

 there being more flowers there, for which they will fly for 

 miles, there being no more nests there than anywhere 

 else, and in ninety- nine cases out of one hundred nothing 

 like so many. 



I believe that all creation is derived from some one form, 

 a mere monad, although I admit that " no one can at 

 present say by what line of descent the three higher and 

 related classes, namely, mammals, birds, reptiles, were 

 derived from either of the two lower vertebrate classes 

 * namely, amphibians and fishes." 



I believe that it requires several generations of cultiva- 

 ted talent to make the mind equal to high intellectual at- 

 tainments, but I find it convenient to forget that it is just 

 as easy a supposition that the debasement of the intellect 

 at any given time, even assuming it as thus to be slowly 

 recovered from, may have been acquired gradually by 

 neglect from a previous height equal to that to be finally 

 attained to. 



I believe that there is no such art as logic, at least, if 



