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The Species of Moths Go on and On
Moths live a settled existence which you might consider rather boring, because it doesn't have constant a change in the way that we do. Because they don't bother to predict, they are never in a state of anxiety and yet they survive. We who look before and after, as emerson says, and predict, and are always concerned whether this generation is going to be better or worse than the one that came before. That just keeps the moth pelation down. And so our consciousness is ro one day's end to another, entirely preoccupied with time and with planning and with what has been and with what will be. Since trouble shooting is its function, we then get the general feeling