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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: nine inches in length. Their surface is smooth and quite plain,
without any of the usual ornaments, such as furrows, knots or
strings of pearls. The spiral edifice is superb, graced with its
own simplicity alone. I count a score of whorls which gradually
decrease until they vanish in the delicate point. They are edged
with a fine groove.
I take a pencil and draw a rough generating line to this cone; and,
relying merely on the evidence of my eyes, which are more or less
practised in geometric measurements, I find that the spiral groove
intersects this generating line at an angle of unvarying value.
The consequence of this result is easily deduced. If projected on
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