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Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.
[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]

— Jean Henri Fabre

The Life and Love of the Insect, trans. Alexander Teixera de Mattos (1911, 1914), 183.

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