guilessness

Updated: May 11, 2025

Soon his prison-house becomes a stomach for his absorption. Its duty of digestion done, the leaf in all seeming guilessness once more expands itself for the enticement of a dupe. To see how much the sun-dew must depend upon its meal of insects we have only to pull it up from the ground.

- Little Masterpieces of Science:: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer