The Progress of the Race 
wood, or dig in the earth, she contrives 
clumsy galleries in the tender pith of dry 
berries; erects a few awkward cells, stores 
these with a little food for the offspring she 
never will see, and then, having accomplished 
this poor task of hers, that tends she knows 
not whither and of whose aim we are no 
less ignorant, she goes off and dies in a 
corner, as solitarily as she had lived. 
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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 apparatus 
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 con- 
struction of dwellings seeking and finding 
extraordinary improvement in every direc- 
tion. Such a study would need a whole 
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