The May-flies, in their flying stage, make up for their
frailness and feebleness, their inability to feed--they have
really no mouth-parts and do not eat at all in their few hours
or days of flying life--by existing in enormous numbers, and
millions may be killed, or may die from very feebleness,
and yet there are enough left to lay the eggs necessary for
a new generation, and that is success in life for them.
Nothing else is necessary. Their whole aim and achievement in
life seems to be to lay eggs and start a new generation of
May-flies.--VERNON L. KELLOGG, “Insect Stories.”
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=Property, Church=--See CHURCH STATISTICS.
=Property, Unvalued=--See APPRECIATION, LACK OF.