THE LIVING WORLD. 
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constantly increasing, who believe that while it is “excellent to have a giant’s 
strength, it is tyrannous to use it like a giant,” and the day is dawning when 
mankind will not excuse each other for the non-use or the abuse of the power 
which each has, nor use 
woman’s greater physical 
weakness for excusing un¬ 
necessary abstinence from 
effort, or for adding un¬ 
fairly to her burdens be¬ 
cause she can make no 
successful resistance. 
It may not be known 
to all that though bats are 
gregarious and companion¬ 
able with each other, their 
polity is like that of the 
Shakers, and forbids co-edu¬ 
cation, flirting or the com¬ 
mingling of the sexes. The 
young ordinarily f a s t e n 
themselves to the body of 
the parent, and are carried 
about wherever the mother 
flies, though scarcely per¬ 
ceptible, so closely do they 
frying fox ( Pteropus edulus). . cling to her body. 
Bats are divided, first, 
into the fruit-eating bats and the insect-eating bats. The Fruit-eaters (Fru- 
givora) are inhabitants of the tropics, and are not found in America, so that 
their depredations may not be 
added to the fears of those who 
always assert that “ the fruit 
is all killed.” The fruit-eaters 
will take entire possession of 
trees, so that to say they are 
“as thick as leaves in Vallam- 
brosa,” would be no exaggera¬ 
tion, and they produce the im¬ 
pression of a new and curious 
and luxuriant foliation. They 
do not seem to like the cocoa- 
nut or the mango, but do not 
show the same aversion to the 
juice of the cocoanut, of which 
they will drink till intoxicated, 
and then exhibit all the amusing 
and all the disgusting effects of 
inebriety. Those who have not succeeded in “getting dead-drunk,” fly in a 
veering sort of way, and in no respect differ from the “antic disposition” 
horse-shoe BAT (Rhinolophus ferrum cquinum). 
