Shells keeping their form and delicate color and delicate
wings of insects are preserved in stone, embedded there ages
ago, “Trees waved, butterflies flitted on brilliant wings and
hosts of creatures basked in the sunlight long before human
foot trod the earth,” says Edith Carrington in “Ages Ago.”
Some pique themselves in being able to trace descent through
a few centuries. But there is a humble creature haunting our
back-yards counting his pedigree by millions of years. The
common wood-louse, tho shy and modest, might boast if he
liked--the scion of an ancient and noble family, the trilobites,
once the monarchs of the world and the most numerous and highly
organized creatures in it. (Text.)
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=Penalty from Mistaken Ideas=--See INDIVIDUALISM, EXCESSIVE.