The Life of the Spider 



And this universal geometry tells us of an 

 Universal Geometrican, whose divine compass 

 has measured all things. I prefer that, as an 

 explanation of the logarithmic cun'e of the 

 Ammonite and the Epeira, to the Worm 

 screwing up the tip of its tail. It may not 

 perhaps be in accordance with latter-day 

 teaching, but it takes a loftier flight 



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