The Nuptial Flight 
stands for a thousand others, as also for 
our entire attitude in face of divers orders 
of truths —that here we should ignore 
the physiological explanation, and retain 
and taste only the emotions of this nuptial 
flight, which is yet, and whatever the cause, 
one of the most lyrical, most beautiful acts 
of that suddenly disinterested, irresistible 
force which all living creatures obey and 
are wont to call love? That were too 
childish ; nor is it possible, thanks to the 
excellent habits every loyal mind has to- 
day acquired. 
The. fact being incontestable, we must 
evidently admit that the exsertion of the 
organ is rendered possible only by. the 
expansion of the tracheal vesicles. But 
if we, content with this fact, did not let 
our eyes roam beyond it; if we deduced 
therefrom that every thought that rises 
too high or wanders too far must be of 
necessity wrong, and that truth must be 
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