The Young Queens 
corruption, and writhes miserably in the 
void; as we might quote also the strange 
phenomena of crystalline cicatrisation and 
reintegration mentioned by Claude Ber- 
nard, etc. But the mystery here becomes 
too foreign to us. Let us keep to our 
flowers, which are the last expression of a 
life that has yet some kinship with our 
own. We are not dealing now with ani- 
mals or insects, to which we attribute a 
special, intelligent will, thanks to which 
they survive. We believe, rightly or 
wrongly, that the flowers possess no such 
will; at least we cannot discover in them 
the slightest trace of the organs wherein 
will, intellect, and initiative of action, are 
usually born and reside. It follows, 
therefore, that all that acts in them in so 
admirable a fashion must directly proceed 
from what we elsewhere call nature. We 
are no longer concerned with the intellect 
of the individual ; here we find the un- 
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