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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: others. The Lycosa accepts without hesitation any strange pill
which she is, given in exchange for her own; she confuses alien
produce with the produce of her ovaries and her silk-factory.
Those hallowed words, maternal love, were out of place here: it is
an impetuous, an almost mechanical impulse, wherein real affection
plays no part whatever. The beautiful Spider of the rock-roses is
no more generously endowed. When moved from her nest to another of
the same kind, she settles upon it and never stirs from it, even
though the different arrangement of the leafy fence be such as to
warn her that she is not really at home. Provided that she have
satin under her feet, she does not notice her mistake; she watches
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