The Young Queens 
appeared had not chance, acting in oppo- 
sition to the desires of nature, permitted 
isolated individuals to escape from the 
excellent and far-seeing Jaw that ordains 
on all sides the triumph of the stronger. 
Can this mighty power err, then, that 
seems unconscious to us, but necessarily 
wise, seeing that the life she organises and 
maintains is forever proving her to be 
right? Can feebleness at times overcome 
that supreme reason, which we are apt to 
invoke when we have attained the limits 
of our own? And if that be so, by whom 
shall this feebleness be set right? 
But let us return to that special form 
of her resistless intervention that we find 
in parthenogenesis. And we shall do 
well to remember that, remote as the 
world may seem in which these problems 
confront us, they do indeed yet concer 
ourselves very nearly. Who would dare 
to affirm that no interventions take place 
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