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I believe that the green colour of the green woodpecker is due 

 to selection by the male or female bird, because I see that there 

 are black and pied woodpeckers also. 



I believe that is not the case that many structures have been 

 created for beauty in the eyes of man, or for mere variety, 

 although I " fully admit that many structures are of no direct 

 use to their possessors." 



I believe that there is " no logical impossibility in the acquire- 

 ment of any conceivable degree of perfection through Natural 

 Selection," although I must admit that the case of the eye is 

 " more than enough to stagger any man." 



I believe that the American ostrich " is not yet perfect," 

 although I can give no proof whatever that it is in the process of 

 becoming so. 



I believe that the " most wonderful of all known instincts," 

 that of the hive bee, can be explained by me, and the illogical 

 way in which it has been attempted to be accounted for in the 

 work on "The Origin of Species " I believe to be a master-piece 

 of reasoning, though nine out of ten of its facts prove nothing 

 whatever by way of conclusion for it. 



I believe the same in the case of the working or sterile ants, 

 though "how the workers have been made sterile is a difficulty;" 

 that is to say, in itself, but none whatever to my more " fertile " 

 brain, which thinks nothing of any difficulty that stands in its 

 way. 



I believe that the difficulty, though "appearing insuperable," 

 "disappears" by my imagining that Selection maybe exercised by 

 a whole "family" as well as by an "individual." 1 choose to 

 forget that families arem.ade up of individuals. 



I believe that on my theory no account need be taken of the 

 " prodigious amount of difference between the fertile and sterile 

 individuals of many insects." 



I believe that my theory is perfectly corn H: I, although there is 

 a " climax of the difficulty " beyond all these that I have yet 

 stated, some of the neuters diiYmng even from each other to an 

 "almost incredible degree;" some "with jaws and instincts 

 extraordinarily different ;" others with forms " the use of which is 

 quite unknown." 



