ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



action of Madame Pity on the world about 

 her undoubtedly is felt as a prenatal influ- 

 ence on the larvae, which faithfully record in 

 their etchings the pictures held in the mind 

 of Mother Pity. Like the bird's song which 

 is not taught, but comes as an inherited in- 

 stinct, the Sparsian genius, in another field, 

 is also a natal gift. But far back in the early 

 stages of the development of the scolytidae 

 it is conceivable that the mother Pity op, 

 like man, did not observe the beauties of 

 nature so keenly as now, and as a result, it 

 is probable that the prenatal impetus given 

 to the larvae was much less artistic, so that 

 the early pictographs did not effect the as- 

 tonishing union of use and beauty in their 

 lines which is evident in the original of these 

 photographs. 



The fact that there is extant no reproduc- 

 tion of any pictograph of the Dark Ages of 

 the Scolytida? would seem to bear out this 

 theory. Had any such masterpiece been 

 produced, it would undoubtedly have been 

 saved. Supporting this view is the well- 

 known edict of Concord that there is no such 



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