ETCETERA. 



HEN the more notable tribes 

 have been taken up one by one, 

 and the less notable grouped 

 together by their affinities, there 

 will remain to the end a 

 large balance of rag, tag, 

 and bobtail, a vast mixed 

 multitude, a circumambient 

 atmosphere of insignificant 

 vitalities in the midst of 

 which we live and move: 

 , we even breathe them. They 

 extend from Professor Tyndall's contumacious bacteria, 

 which will not be produced by spontaneous generation, to 



