The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles 



outside world? Let us repeat, as much as a 

 bit of an intestine can know. And this sense- 

 less creature astounds us ! I regret that the 

 clever logician, instead of conceiving a statue 

 smelling a rose, did not imagine it gifted with 

 some instinct. How quickly he would have 

 recognized that, quite apart from sense-im- 

 pressions, the animal, including man, pos- 

 sesses certain psychological resources, certain 

 inspirations that are innate and not acquired! 



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