IV. 
ra 
. THE MICROSCOPE : 
Contents. 
INTRODUCTION. 
THE LIVING INFINITE, 
- OUR STUDIES AT PARIS AND IN SWITZERLAND, ... eee eee 
- OUR STUDIES AT FONTAINEBLEAU, 
. OUR STUDIES AT FONTAINEBLEAU (CONTINUED), ... 
BOOK I.—METAMORPHOSIS. 
. TERROR AND REPUGNANCE OF CHILDHOOD, 
. COMPASSION, 
. WORLD-BUILDERS, 
LOVE AND DEATH, 
THE ORPHAN: ITS FEEBLENESS, 
THE MUMMY, NYMPH, OR CHRYSALIS, 
. THE PH@NIX, 3 
BOOK II.—MISSION AND ARTS OF THE INSECT. 
- SWAMMERDAM, 
HAS THE INSECT A PHYSIOGNOMY ? 
. THE INSECT AS THE AGENT OF NATURE IN THE ACCELERATION OF DEATH AND LIFE, 
THE INSECT AS MAN’S AUXILIARY, 
. A PHANTASMAGORIA OF LIGHT AND COLOUR, 
» THE SILKWORM, Sco se see coe 
. INSTRUMENTS OF THE INSECT: AND [TS CHEMICAL ENERGIES, AS IN THE COCHINEAL 
AND THE CANTHARIDES, 
ON THE RENOVATION OF OUR ARTS BY THE STUDY OF THE INSECT, 
. THE SPIDER—INDUSTRY—THE STOPPAGE, te 
THE HOME AND LOVES OF THE SPIDER, an 
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