The Nuptial Flight 
not, but there is something within me that 
already enfolds you. You will destroy me 
perhaps, but if your object be not to con- 
struct, from my ruins, an organism better 
than mine, you will prove yourself inferior 
to what I am, and the silence that will 
follow the death of the race to which I 
belong will declare to you that you have 
been judged. And if you are not capable 
even of caring whether you be justly judged 
or not, of what value can your secret be? 
It must be stupid or hideous. Chance has 
enabled you to produce a creature that you 
yourself lacked the quality to produce. It 
is fortunate for him that a contrary chance 
should have permitted you to suppress him, 
before he had fathomed the depths of your 
unconsciousness ; more fortunate still that 
he does not survive the infinite series of 
your awful experiments. He had nothing 
to do in a world where his intellect corre- 
sponded to no eternal intellect, where his 
desire for the better could attain no actual 
good.’ 
‘“‘Once more, for the spectacle to absorb 
us there is no need of progress. The 
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