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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: to be restored to the silken treasury. It is a tough mouthful,
difficult for the stomach to elaborate; still, it is precious and
must not be lost. The work finishes with the swallowing. Then and
there, the Spider instals herself, head downwards, at her hunting-
post in the centre of the web.
The operation which we have just seen gives rise to a reflection.
Men are born right-handed. Thanks to a lack of symmetry that has
never been explained, our right side is stronger and readier in its
movements than our left. The inequality is especially noticeable
in the two hands. Our language expresses this supremacy of the
favoured side in the terms dexterity, adroitness and address, all
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