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Evening Star, Issue 3698, 29 December 1874, Page 3

Nature on the Side of the Females.—Among the beings of a lower typo, plant and animal, all the more recent observations indicate that Nature herself systematically favors the females the mothers of the destined races. Nature’s sturdiest buds and her best-fed butterflies belong to that sex ; her female spiders are largo enough to eat up a score of the little males ; Natural selection, whether the working out of intelligent design or otherwise, would make this inevitable. We might expect that tbe neuter bee could be nourished into the queen-mother; If required to judge a priori, we should decide, if there be no predetermination of the sex; since the one special fact in feminine organism is the innate tendency to manufacture, and within certain limits, to store reserved force foe the future nfefls of off-ipmgN-r 1 Fpjpqlaf SclenfcV