312 STUDIES IN INSECT LIFE, ETC. 



quoth my uncle Toby, ' my heart would not let 

 me curse the devil himself with so much bitter- 

 ness/ ' He is the father of curses/ replied 

 Dr. Slop. ' So am not I/ replied my uncle. 

 ' But he is cursed and damn'd already to all 

 eternity/ replied Dr. Slop. ' I am sorry for it/ 

 quoth my uncle Toby/' 



That on the whole hatred was until recently 

 thought to be diminishing in quantity and per- 

 haps in quality is shown by the fact that in " A 

 New English Dictionary on Historical Principles/' 

 edited by Sir James Murray, and published at 

 Oxford, 1901, hate is denned as " an emotion of 

 extreme dislike or aversion; detestation, abhor- 

 rence, hatred. Now chiefly poet" This last 

 fragment of a word the italics are in the original 

 reminds one that in 1832 Shelley wrote " Why 

 is it that we all write love-songs ? Why shouldn't 

 we write hate-songs ? " and the Germans have 

 recently written hate-songs, or at any rate revived 

 them : 



" un fiore 



per I'amore, 

 o per odio una saetta." 



CARDUCCI. 



Nobody seems to have defined Hate very con- 



