In the domain of things positive, it is not always sufficient to gather the facts, to record them, and to codify in bare formulae the results of inquiry. Doubtless every essential discovery is able to stand by itself; in what would an inventor profit, for example, by raising himself to the level of the artist? "For the theorem lucidity suffices; truth issues naked from the bottom of a well."
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Here I offer to the public the life of Jean-Henri Fabre; at once an admiring commentary upon his work and an act of pious homage, such as ought to be offered, while he lives, to the great naturalist who is even to-day so little known. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Here I offer to the public the life of Jean-Henri Fabre; at once an admiring commentary upon his work and an act of pious homage, such as ought to be offered, while he lives, to the great naturalist who is even to-day so little known. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on page 22, and page 106
- Social Life in the Insect World by J. Henri Fabre on page 26, and page 35
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 22, and page 106
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on page 22, and page 106
- Fabre, Poet of Science by G. V. Legros in Front Matter
- Creator Spirit by Charles E. Raven on page 124
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