34 FABRE'S EXPERIMENT 



some experiments, evolves a net to catch 



fishes, and again, nets for many purposes. 



But all this is learned from Nature, who 



knows. 



" Nature, in her Divine purity, is the image 

 of Deity." A community of processionary 

 caterpillars is an example of nature in her 

 Divine purity. 



These caterpillars do not reason and specu- 

 late among themselves as to the ways and 

 means for carr5dng out their project as would 

 be the case with human beings, who, holding 

 various and conflicting opinions, are forced to 

 set up a leader in whom they can trust, other- 

 wise inevitable confusion results. No, these 

 creatures require neither leader nor physical 

 sight, for theirs is the sub-conscious clair- 

 voyant mind, and, as units which go to make 

 up the procession, they are so linked by tele- 

 pathy as to blend into oneness — oneness of 

 purpose, which purpose is in tune with the 

 Infinite Intelligence. . . . 



Fabre, the famous French naturalist, among 

 other experiments, tried the effect of putting 

 these processionary larvae on the rim of a 

 large flower-pot, the result being (what the 

 present writer would have anticipated) that 

 the caterpillars processed round and round the 

 rim for many consecutive days, pausing only 



