Bramble-Dwellers 



pheric influence would certainly never guide 

 us. 



And yet it guides the insect. Feeble though 

 it be, through the multiplicity of partitions, 

 it is exercised on one side more than on the 

 other, because the obstacles are fewer; and the 

 insect, sensible to the difference between those 

 two uncertainties, unhesitatingly attacks the 

 partition which is nearer to the open air. 

 Thus is decided the division of the column into 

 two converse sections, which accomplish the 

 total liberation with the least aggregate of 

 work. In short, the Osmia and her rivals 

 "feel" the free space. This is yet one more 

 sensory faculty which evolution might well 

 have left us, for our greater advantage. As 

 it has not done so, are we then really, as many 

 contend, the highest expression of the progress 

 accomplished, throughout the ages, by the first 

 atom of glair expanded into a cell? 



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