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CHAPTER V. 



PROVISION FOR REARING THE YOUNG. 



THE PRESERVATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE PRE- 

 SERVATION OF THE SPECIES — FOODS MANUFACTURED 

 BY THE PARENTS FOR THEIR YOUNG — SPECIES WHICH 

 OBTAIN FOR THEIR LARV^ FOODS MANUFACTURED BY 

 OTHERS— CARCASSES OF ANIMALS STORED UP — PRO- 

 VISION OF PARALYSED LIVING ANIMALS — THE CAUSE 

 OF THE PARALYSIS — THE SURENESS OF INSTINCT — 

 SIMILAR CASES IN WHICH THE SPECIFIC INSTINCT IS 

 LESS POWERFUL AND INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE GREATER 

 ^GENERA LESS SKILFUL IN THE ART OF PARALYSING 

 VICTIMS. 



The preservation of the individual and the preserva- 

 tion of the species.- — In the previous chapter we have 

 seen animals preparing for the future, and amassing 

 materials for their own subsistence. In other cases 

 these provisions are destined to feed the young. It is 

 the same industry, sometimes exercised for the pre- 

 servation of the individual, sometimes for the per- 

 petuation of the race. We must expect to find acts 

 of the last kind more instinctive and less reflective 

 than those of the first, and this agrees well with what 

 we know of natural selection. If we now see living 

 beings display so many resources and calculate with 

 such certainty all that will favour the healthy develop- 



