LIFE AT THE SURFACE OF THE SEA. 201 
Here I must bring to a close my present paper. I have 
been able to lay before you only a very few facts concerning 
the wonderful life of the sea. But for those who have seen 
even a little, the sea can never be a mere waste of waters, 
but always the home of countless living things, of which, 
from the smallest to the greatest, none liveth to itself alone, 
but everywhere the lives of all are mysteriously intertwined 
in a living network, whence the creative energy to-day, as in 
the beginning, ever calls forth countless forms of wondrous 
beauty to a world which is indeed a world of struggle, and 
toil, and travail, but which, we may well believe, is also, for 
them as for us, much more than this. I have had to speak 
of the struggle for existence, but have done so always 
bearing in mind that, as our President * has expressed it, 
“The struggle for existence is far more than an internecine 
struggle at the margin of subsistence; that it includes all 
the multitudinous efforts for self and for others between the 
poles of love and hunger; that it comprises all the endeavours 
of mate for mate, of parent for offspring, of kin for kin; 
that love and life are factors in progress as well as pain and 
death; that life for many an animal means the well-being 
of a socially-bound or kin-bound organism in a social maliew ; 
that egoism is not satisfied until it becomes altruistic.” 
Rererences. — Brooks, W. K., Foundations of Zoology, ete. ; 
Cunningham, Marketable Marine Fishes, etc.; Deschamps,. 
E., La Vie Mystérieuse des Mers; M‘Intosh, W., Resources 
of the Sea, etc.; Regnard, La Vie dans les Eaux; Scottish 
Fishery Board Reports (various); Thomson, J. Arthur, The 
Science of Life, ete.; Verworn, Allgemeine Physiologie ; etc. 
* Professor J. Arthur Thomson. 
