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organic being is striving to increase

a geometrical ratio; that each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for

life

life,

and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.

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