CHAPTER 11 



THE HAUNTS OF LIFE 



(The Exploitation of the Eakth) 



♦Sbe bae aivi&eD berself tbat sbe mag be ber own &elfgbt. 

 Sbe caueee an en&less succeseton of new capacities for 

 cnjoBmcnt to spring up, tbat bet insatiable sgrnpalbB maB 

 be assuages. . . .' 



'Sbe tosses ber creatures out of notbingness, anb tells 

 tbem not wbcnce tbeg came, nor wbitber tbeg go. Jt is 

 tbeir business to run, sbe ftnows tbe roab. . . .' 



— Ooethe's Aphorisms, translated by Huxley. 



The Shore Fauna — The Pelagic Paiina — The Abyssal Fauna — 

 The Freshwater Fauna — The Terrestrial Fauna — The Aerial 

 Fauna. 



THEEE are six great haunts of life : the shore of 

 the sea, the open sea, the deep sea, the freshwater, 

 the dry land, and the air. And these have their distinctive 

 tenants. For while some types may be represented by 

 very similar forms in more than one haunt, and while some 

 animals pass from one haunt to another, yet on the whole 

 there is distinctiveness in the faunas of the various regions. 

 So we may speak of littoral, pelagic, abyssal, freshwater, 

 terrestrial, and aerial faunas. Besides the great haunts 

 there are minor haunts of much interest — such as caves, 

 and brackish water, and underneath the ground. It must 

 be granted, too, that parasitic animals have explored and 



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