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AND MEN:INSTINCT AND REASON\n\nt  \nINSECTS AND MEN:INSTINCT AND REASON  \nReflections on the Observations and Discoveriesof the Late Henri Fabre,Naturalist  \nBy Clarence S.Darrow  \n[Stenographic report by Ethel 1.Maclaske fan addres8.before the Rationalist Society of Chi-cago.Revised by the author.]  \nHenri Fabre has been very little known.He is coming to be known better every day.He was not a reformer or even a Freethinker,or a business man,but he was just a simplestudent who spent all of his lifetime fincingout about bees,ants,caterpillars and otherbrethren of his.He found out more aboutthem than any other living man.I do notknow what good it did him to find this out,orwhat good it is for the world to learn aboutthem.For me,it is interesting,that is all.And if what I may say can induce some ofyou to study him I think you will find a greatdeal of pleasure in it,which is the most yoget out of anything.If a man can becomeso interested in an ant or any other bug thathe forgets himself,it is almost as good as notliving at all.  \nHenri Fabre was born of poor parents—about the poorest one could have and live.He  \nwas one of a large family.His parents wereignorant,they could neither read nor write.nor could his grandparents before him.HenriFabre said:“It is hard to find in any of myancestors an excuse for me.”He had scarcelyany schooling to mention.As a boy,he workedhard.Early in life,he became interested inthe little things about him.He earned his wayby doing manual work.At one time he secureda professorship in a school.Outside of hiswork he studied bugs.People thought he wascrazy,and they tried to have him dismissedfrom the school.Then he went back'to man-ual work again.At another time he discovereda new kind of a dye that could be made fromanimals and was nearly on the verge of makinga fortune out of his discovery when somebodyfound a mineral dye which could be made muchcheaper,so he lost this.  \nFor twenty or thirty years he worked on hisbugs before anyone ever heard of him.Hewas probably sixty or more years old beforethe world knew anything about him.All of hislife he longed for a little patch of ground thatwould be inhabited by wasps and bees andbeetles and grasshoppers,and no men orwomen excepting his own family.He had alarge family,eight or ten children,and hisfather lived with him until he was nearly ahundred years old—and after he was sixty-fiveyears,Henri Fabre managed to secure a littleplot of ground,a few acres,sterile and fruit-less.It was not good enough to raise any-thing and had been given back to nature.Thisland was filled with all of the creeping thingsthat Henri Fabre liked.and he spent the last  \n## ASTINCT AND REASON\n\nthirty years of his life on it —a few milesfrom a little hamlet in Southern France—andnever went away from it.After he was abouteighty years old,the world gave him the firstformal recognition at a reception in the littletown where he lived.Maeterlinck and someother famous people of the world came to paytheir respects to him,and have told the worldwho and what Henri Fabre really was.  \nWhile Henri Fabre was making his discov-eries,he was writing books that were not pub-lished until later.These were on the fly,thebee,the grasshopper,the caterpillar,the spiderand all sorts of other bugs—ten volumes inall,that have but recently been published.Fabre was not a great reader of books,unlessthey were along the line of his work.But,Ihave nowhere found more delightful literaturethan these sketches of_Fabre's.  They areplain,simple stories.He tells of the mostprofound things in the easiest possible way,so that even a child can understand them.Forstudying style one could not do better than toget Fabre's books and read them.  \nHenri Fabre was a poor man all of his life.At one time,while he was living on his littleabandoned plantation,he_was so ne","cbCaieOfnxupmXek","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieOfnxupmXek","pdf",4008872,68,"English","# INSECTS AND MEN: INSTINCT AND REASON\n## Reflections on Henri Fabre\n## Instinct, reason, and insect life","[{\"question\":\"Who is Henri Fabre in the text?\",\"answer\":\"Henri Fabre is portrayed as a naturalist who spent his lifetime studying insects such as bees, ants, caterpillars, and other species.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the author say about Fabre’s writing style?\",\"answer\":\"Fabre’s books are described as plain and simple stories that present profound ideas in an easy way so that even children can understand them.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text contrast insect instinct with human reason?\",\"answer\":\"The insects’ actions are presented as automatic and often more perfectly reasoned, while human reasoning is said to get “balled up,” creating confusion.\"}]","Insects and Men - Instinct and Reason | PDF",1791874008]