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little further, there seems good reason to suspect that man, who 

 appeared upon the scene at a very much later date and whose 

 ideas of what is beautiful are doubtless largely derived from the 

 contemplation of flowers, may owe much of his aesthetic develop- 

 ment to the fact that he has been educated by flower-loving 

 insects. 



