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Show Long and Short of It Proved Speaker's Point "Nature," observed the lecturer to his audience in the village hall, "always tries to make compensation compensa-tion for any deficiency in its structure. struc-ture. For instance, if a man loses the sight of an eye, the sight of the other eye invariably becomes stronger, just as when a person goes deaf in one ear, the hearing of the other ear becomes more acute. And if an arm or a hand is lost, the strength and skill of the remaining member becomes greater." "That's certainly true," said one young fellow to his neighbor, "for I've noticed that when a person per-son has one short leg, the other is always longer." |