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Natural Selection Imperfection of Work

no doubt the [illeg] of the great injuries to it — —Horse Horse-fly Horses leap & alight so gently not perceived on our own faces — natural selection has not done its work for gnat— anymore than that a very fleet animal fox or Hawk has not become under infinity fleet—

The prickle or bite by gnat injurious to itself — — in Vampire Bat corrected — The tickling by flea flea injurious counteracted counteracted by jumping & difficulty in being crushed,— the flea of armadillo cannot jump.—The swelling after gnat bite or Bug's bite not injurious to gnat or bug as [2 words illeg] ensue afterwards— in Tsetze fly very injurious to the fly, as causes death of its prey.— Many animals banished from many countries by Diptera— An incidental consequence— like a plant poisonous to animal which does not live on it.—