Ifhtstratita Jlotes. 
The Meaning of this Book .—It lias sprung wholly from the 
heart. Nothing has been given up to the intellect, nothing to 
systems. We have abstained from entering into scientific 
disputes. 
If the following formula should seem to you too 
systematic, pass over it. We have not sought to em¬ 
body a dogma in it. We would only simplify, if pos¬ 
sible, the point of view, and place it in the reader’s 
power to embrace the whole significance of the book. 
NOTE 1. 
The point of departure is violent. It is the gigantic and necessary war 
waged by the insect upon all morbid or encumbering life that might prove an 
