The Ignorance of Instinct 



of the race, the insect is unable to go beyond 

 them. 



I conclude therefore as I began: instinct 

 knows everything, in the undeviating paths 

 marked out for it; it knows nothing, outside 

 those paths. The sublime inspirations of 

 science and the astounding inconsistencies of 

 stupidity are both its portion, according as 

 the insect acts under normal or accidental 

 conditions. 



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