[Social Life in the Insect World by J. H. Fabre]@TWC D-Link bookSocial Life in the Insect World CHAPTER XX 27/28
If it were in my power I should hasten to satisfy this ambitious gentleman. But so be it: you have really prepared protoplasm.
By force of meditation, profound study, minute care, impregnable patience, your desire is realised: you have extracted from your apparatus an albuminous slime, easily corruptible and stinking like the devil at the end of a few days: in short, a nastiness.
What are you going to do with it? Organise something? Will you give it the structure of a living edifice? Will you inject it with a hypodermic syringe between two impalpable plates to obtain were it only the wing of a fly? That is very much what the locust does.
It injects its protoplasm between the two surfaces of an embryo organ, and the material forms a wing-cover, because it finds as guide the ideal archetype of which I spoke but now.
It is controlled in the labyrinth of its course by a device anterior to the injection: anterior to the material itself. This archetype, the co-ordinator of forms; this primordial regulator; have you got it on the end of your syringe? No! Then throw away your product.
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