Professor Huxley, in a remarkable passage, has imagined the possibility of the existence of beings rising higher and higher in intelligence, the consciousness ever expanding, and the reaching of a stage as much above the human as the human is above that of the blackbeetle.
"Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries"
Annie Besant
On the whole, I'd rather meet a ghost, than a rat, or a blackbeetle, or a burglar.
"Happy-Thought Hall"
F. C. Burnand
The diminishing scale, of what I would rather not meet in a narrow staircase at night, is, the burglar, rat, blackbeetle, ghost.
"Happy-Thought Hall"
F. C. Burnand