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Show Nature Has Preceded Mun. Almost all of men's inventions have been foreshadowed by nature. The hypodermic syringe with which the physician Injects morphine Into a patient's pa-tient's nrm has Its counterpart In the sting of tho bee The tunnel-borer Is an adaptation of tho work of tho tero-do, tero-do, or shlpworm The principle of tho balloon Is found In certain fishes. The paper-makln j Industry Is paralleled In the building of tho wasp's nest. In tho mechanism of man's body there aro Joints and lovers similar to those used in engines. The automatic oiling of surfaces which rub together in an onglne Is on tho same plan as the lubrication lu-brication of tho joints in our body Man's nervous system resembles tho 1 telegraph In Its mode of working. The ball bearings of a blcyclo or automobile automo-bile are not so very dissimilar to tho ball Joints of tho human hips and BhouUlors. The principle of tho lever was foreshadowed in the long bones of the human body, , |