TCD MS 10515 folio 45r
[April 28th 1916]
fects the lives and distribution of many species, so does every species influence every other species through the complex web of life. And as species acts on species so does individual act on individual, and so each single being in each species will influence, in some infinites usual degree, every living being in every other species. Would that we could have but the faintest vision of the vast profundity of this scheme? Would that we might gain some inkling of the complex dependance of life on life so that if one species becomes extinct, other species must prevail? would that through the darkness of our ignorance we might percieve how every being is linked with every other being and every single creature that expires must affect the whole of living nature. For assuredly