THE MICROSCOPE
that has taught us the secret of their life. That the sex of the glow worm was unknown, or that the phosphorescent light proceeded from its eyes, is ni pardonable error ; but that bears' cubs were licked into shape by their mother, that the badger had legs longer on one side than on the other, that elephants had no joints in their legs, and that whales covered acres with their unwieldy forms— these beliefs seem to us so manifestly absurd that they can be accounted for only by supposing that in the early days of natural history people could not distinguish sober fact trom the disordered freaks of their imaginations.
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Southland Times, Issue 19381, 3 September 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)
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112THE MICROSCOPE Southland Times, Issue 19381, 3 September 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)
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