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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: distance, from their leafy ambush. How do they know? Certainly
not by sight. Before recognizing their mistake, they have to hold
the object between their legs and even to nibble at it a little.
They are extremely short-sighted. At a hand's-breadth's distance,
the lifeless prey, unable to shake the web, remains unperceived.
Besides, in many cases, the hunting takes place in the dense
darkness of the night, when sight, even if it were good, would not
avail.
If the eyes are insufficient guides, even close at hand, how will
it be when the prey has to be spied from afar! In that case, an
intelligence-apparatus for long-distance work becomes
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