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TAILORS 



We have done with the communal builders, and 

 with those that construct dwellings for their pro- 

 geny whether hy mining, masonry, carpentry, or 

 otherwise. Our present business is with the in- 

 dividual who, not satisfied with the provision made 

 by nature, makes an additional covering that he 

 may avoid being seen by creatures that would 

 attack and eat him. With many species there is 

 inherited knowledge of the fact that the way 

 through Hfe is beset by dangers, that enemies are 

 looking for their victims on all sides, and that the 

 sooner the intended victim can make himself to 

 look like something unpalatable the better for his 

 chance of fulfilling the destiny of his kind. So, as 

 soon as they have quitted the egg-shell, we find 

 certain insects making arrangements for a disguise; 

 though in some cases not so much for protection 

 against more powerful foes, as to enable them to 

 fall upon a victim without creating suspicion. 



The venerable Archdeacon Paley, whose book on 

 Natural Theology was once popular reading, 

 averred that man is " the only animal which can 



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