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Show NOT SBUF-3i.AUHTEnEnS. Suakca and 6orploits Dnttnt Commit Sul. clde, s II111 lleoct Suppoiod. Writing to Nature Prof Itay I.nn-kestcr I.nn-kestcr says: "Tho letter of Kdwnrd 8. Holdcn on this subject Is oxtreincly Interesting. In-teresting. It appears that he, llko other Individuals who havo Imagined that thoy havo witnessed tho sulcldo of scorpions, havo fallen Into the error er-ror (so common in tho interpretntlo 1 of blologicnl as distinguished fro 1 ablologlcal phenomena) of stating h ' Inferenoes and beliefs at tliou-'i they wr olmervntinna. The 'inMt.i 1 wlitob occnrrd beforo my ryes' u , quute his words, whloh remln 1 ttn of tho old herbal i-.t, (lerardi ai fli;.' that of a nnako bttin r iticlt wli n i 0 prisoned In a jar of water. T'i it "1 blow was 'ilctllx rate,' 'Int-'in m .1. nnd of 'suicidal purpoe' Is purj sp i n lnttott, and nothing oociirr.-1 h tji? Mr. lloldcn's eyes to warrjut ir-.v-tertaintng huch a notion. II.' 1 " llolden V,, en aware that the - .! 1 ' the rattb-siinko hni llt'.l." or ri'ii .7 j upon anot'i rr:tth iiialto 'tor up .i 1 Indlviilunl fr un which the t ' i . 1 fnrnlBho.l Im wotil 1 p-i'n'-i'v lu leen li 1 ' u 1 u..,i 10 1 tai t blt"Wi. .. . i 1.-1 pii' 1 - 1 1 would i'. . 11 'n 1 . ,ia.. i.t . 1 .. U Hie ,!. (.til 10 much the blt'i . 1.-tr-ii ,.,'ji i . . . . : I . u.U. u . ...i .. . u .,. -.0l t,l"ll-a t,l"ll-a .-1 . 1 r o . a ' .,1 .... j h 'js any poisonous aution) to lu ecriou.- , Injurious to tlio 1 ira'ic. In this i"i". as lu that of the MMrpl.m confino 1 i.' a fiery circle (expciimentally rUuUed botli by myself and by l'rof. Kourue, of Madras, and reported on in the proceedings pro-ceedings of the Linnman socloly u.i I tho lloyal socioly), t'10 spasm li struggles of an animal nrtiflciallv com lined nnd tortured hnvo boon, -an clearly dumonstratod, mi.'itukon fm efforts nt aclf-doBlruction. The bit! 1 of Its own body by tho snake mny 1 Justlj, compared with tho 'biting- t!i. dust' nttributod to men who die in a hand-to-hand struggle or to tho bltlnc of their own hand ornrm by unhealthy children when suffering from 11 paroxysm par-oxysm of anger." |
