The Blight Fly 
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we have ceased to kill off birds, that the 
ignorant, superstitious tales have pro- 
nounced to be destructive in gardens and 
fields, when men have studied insects more, 
and found out the hideous mistakes they 
are making — then, perhaps bounteous 
Nature will prove even more bounteous 
still, and these little drawbacks to 
horticulture and agriculture will remedy 
themselves. 
The blight fly helps me to understand 
that there are higher things at stake 
even than the mutilation of my rose garden. 
This study, if carried further, will help to 
increase the great corn harvest of the world, 
and the food supply of man. We are the 
workmen, the agents employed to help 
in the running of the world’s vast 
mechanism, but we are not the Master 
Mind which conceived the whole, and when 
we try to manipulate its numberless springs 
and cogs, lest we wreck the whole, the life 
story of the aphis whispers, Hands off ! 
