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The government has introduced legislation to compel public buildings to spend a certain amount of their budget on art.

Dostoyevsky once noted that it is only by self-respect that you will compel others to respect you.

Much of our behavior is controlled by internal factors that compel us in the direction of a goal.

The necessities of a rapidly increasing population had not yet begun to compel the farmer to use every means adapted to increase the amount of production to its utmost limit; and though the fundamental principles of chemistry had been established, its details, especially in that department which treats of the constituents of plants and animals, were very imperfectly known.

No group of plants has taken more elaborate precautions against self-pollination or developed more elaborate and ingenious mechanism to compel insects to transfer their pollen than this.

Spring traps, adhesive plasters, and hair-triggers attached to explosive shells of pollen are among the many devices by which orchids compel insects to cross-fertilize them, these flowers as a family showing the most marvelous mechanism adapted to their requirements from insects in the whole floral kingdom.

In some such manner most of our orchids compel insects to work for them in preventing self-fertilization.

This is the geranium's and many other flowers' method to compel cross-fertilization by insects.

How endless are the devices of the flowers to guard against this evil and to compel insects to cross-pollinate them! The most minute detail of the mechanism involved, which the microscope reveals, only increases our interest and wonder.

ciliaris) and the great green orchids compel insects to work for them.

How plants do compel insects, birds, and beasts to work for them! The entire plant is astringent, and has been used in medicine; also by leather dressers.

If so marked a benefit from imported pollen may be observed in a single generation, is it any wonder that ambitious plants employ every sort of ingenious device to compel insects to bring them pollen from distant flowers of the same species?

No wonder, then, that, as a family, they have adopted the most marvelous blandishments and mechanism in the whole floral kingdom to secure the visits of that special insect to which each is adapted, and, having secured him, to compel him unwittingly to do their bidding.

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These little blossoms, barely half an inch long, with their ingenious mechanism to compel cross-fertilization, repay the closest study.

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