The Progress of the Race 



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We shall pass over many intermediary 

 species, wherein we may see the gradual 

 lengthening of the tongue, enabling more 

 nectar to be extracted from the cups of 

 corollas, and the dawning formation and 

 subsequent development of the appara- 

 tus for collecting pollen, — hairs, tufts, 

 brushes on the tibia, on the tarsus, and 

 abdomen, — as also claws and mandibles 

 becoming stronger, useful secretions being 

 formed, and the genius that presides over 

 the construction of dwellings seeking 

 and finding extraordinary improvement 

 in every direction. Such a study would 

 need a whole volume. I will merely 

 outline a chapter of it, less than a chapter, 

 a page, which shall show how the hesitat- 

 ing endeavours of the will to live and be 

 happier result in the birth, development, 

 and affirmation of social intelligence. 

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