CHAPTER III. 
THE INSECT AS THE AGENT OF NATURE IN THE 
ACCELERATION OF DEATH AND LIFE. 
THE insect has not my languages. He neither speaks 
by voice nor physiognomy. In what manner, then, 
does he express himself ? 
He speaks by his energies. 
Ist. By the immense destructive influence he exer- 
cises on the superabundance of Nature, on a 
swarm of lingering or morbid lives which he 
hastens to sweep away. 
2nd. He speaks also by his visible energies, especially in the 
moment of love, his colours, his fires, his poisons (many of which are 
among our therapeutic agents). 
