CONCERNING THE HOUSE FLY.
The common house-fly against which our hands are turned was described by Ruskin as "the most perfectly free and republican of creatures." "There is no courtesy in him," he wrote. "He does not care whether it is a king or a clown whom ho teases, and in every step of his swift, mechanical march and in every pause of Ins resolute observation, there is one and the same perfect expression of perfect egotism, perfect independence and self confidence and conviction of the world having been made for flies." It may . be _ remembered that when Menelaus, King of Sparta, invoked Athena for strength to withstand Hector, the goddess gave him the courage of the "most fearless and audacious of creatures, the fly" !
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 15
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125CONCERNING THE HOUSE FLY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 15
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