The Nuptial Flight 
rendering the kiss one that can never be 
forgotten; and, content this time with 
moderate tithe, proceeding herself, with 
hands that are almost maternal, to intro- 
duce and unite, in one body, for a long 
and inseparable future, two little fragile 
lives. 
Profound truth has not this poetry, but 
possesses another that we are less apt to 
grasp, which, however, we should end, 
perhaps, by understanding and loving. 
Nature has not gone out of her way to 
provide these two “abbreviated atoms,” 
as Pascal would call them, with a resplen- 
dent marriage, or an ideal moment of love. 
Her concern, as we have said, was merely 
to improve the race by means of crossed 
fertilisation. To ensure this she has con- 
trived the organ of the male in such a 
fashion that he can make use of it only 
in space. A prolonged flight must first 
expand his two great tracheal sacs; these 
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