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Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas

Note 2 — REMY DE GOURMONT (continued 3)

William Aspenwall Bradley translation

Copulation would have sufficed for that. Life in common, after fertilization, is extremely rare, except among primates and birds. Among carnivorous insects, the union is often mortal for the male whom the stronger female devours.

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