Science And Morals And Other Essays
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There is a form of protective mimicry whereby the livingthing is like unto its surroundings, and thus escapes its enemy. We findit in warfare in the use of khaki dress, in white overalls in snow-time, in other such expedients. But there is also a form of Aggressive Mimicryin which a deadly thing makes itself look like something innocent, asthe wolf tried to look in "Little Red Riding Hood. " "The Germans werebeginning their attack on Haumont. Their front-line skirmishers, tothrow us into confus...ion, had donned caps which were a faint imitation ofour own, and also provided themselves with Red Cross brassards" (_TheBattle of Verdun. _ H. Dugard). Not to be tedious on this point, whichreally does not require to be laboured, let me finish with one quotationfrom a vivid series of war-pictures. Boyd Cable is writing of men inthe trenches: "Civilised Man, in his latest art of war, has gone back tobe taught one more simple lesson by the beast of the field and the birdsof the air; the armed hosts are hushed and stilled by the passingair-machine, exactly as the finches and field-mice of hedgerow and ditchand field are frozen to stillness by the shadow of a hovering hawk, thebeat of its passing wing.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There is a form of protective mimicry whereby the livingthing is like unto its surroundings, and thus escapes its enemy. We findit in warfare in the use of khaki dress, in white overalls in snow-time, in other such expedients. But there is also a form of Aggressive Mimicryin which a deadly thing makes itself look like something innocent, asthe wolf tried to look in "Little Red Riding Hood. " "The Germans werebeginning their attack on Haumont. Their front-line skirmishers, tothrow us into confus...ion, had donned caps which were a faint imitation ofour own, and also provided themselves with Red Cross brassards" (_TheBattle of Verdun. _ H. Dugard). Not to be tedious on this point, whichreally does not require to be laboured, let me finish with one quotationfrom a vivid series of war-pictures. Boyd Cable is writing of men inthe trenches: "Civilised Man, in his latest art of war, has gone back tobe taught one more simple lesson by the beast of the field and the birdsof the air; the armed hosts are hushed and stilled by the passingair-machine, exactly as the finches and field-mice of hedgerow and ditchand field are frozen to stillness by the shadow of a hovering hawk, thebeat of its passing wing.
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