곤충.The Insect, by Jules Michelet

contents.

INTRODUCTION.
I. THE LIVING INFINITE, 17
II. OUR STUDIES AT PARIS AND IN SWITZERLAND, 23
III. OUR STUDIES AT FONTAINEBLEAU, 36
IV. OUR STUDIES AT FONTAINEBLEAU (CONTINUED), 46
BOOK I.―METAMORPHOSIS.
I. TERROR AND REPUGNANCE OF CHILDHOOD, 57
II. COMPASSION, 67
III. WORLD- BUILDERS, 79
IV. LOVE AND DEATH, 89
V. THE ORPHAN: ITS FEEBLENESS, 99
VI. THE MUMMY, NYMPH, OR CHRYSALIS, 109
VII. THE PHŒNIX, 119
BOOK II.―MISSION AND ARTS OF THE INSECT.
I. SWAMMERDAM, 129
II. THE MICROSCOPE:―HAS THE INSECT A PHYSIOGNOMY? 143
III. THE INSECT AS THE AGENT OF NATURE IN THE ACCELERATION OF
DEATH AND LIFE,
155
IV. THE INSECT AS MAN'S AUXILIARY, 165
V. A PHANTASMAGORIA OF LIGHT AND COLOUR, 175
VI. THE SILKWORM, 185
VII. INSTRUMENTS OF THE INSECT: AND ITS CHEMICAL ENERGIES, AS IN
THE COCHINEAL AND THE CANTHARIDES, 193
VIII. ON THE RENOVATION OF OUR ARTS BY THE STUDY OF THE INSECT, 201
IX. THE SPIDER―INDUSTRY―THE STOPPAGE, 211
X. THE HOME AND LOVES OF THE SPIDER, [ viii] 223
BOOK III.―COMMUNITIES OF INSECTS.
I. THE CITY IN THE SHADOWS: THE TERMITES, OR WHITE ANTS, 235
II. THE ANTS:―THEIR DOMESTIC ECONOMY―THEIR NUPTIALS, 245
III. THE ANTS:―THEIR FLOCKS AND THEIR SLAVES, 259
IV. THE ANTS:―CIVIL WAR―EXTERMINATION OF THE COMMUNITY, 271
V. THE WASPS: THEIR FURY OF IMPROVISATION, 283
VI."THE BEES" OF VIRGIL, 293
VII. THE BEE IN THE FIELDS, 301
VIII. THE BEES AS ARCHITECTS: THE CITY, 311
IX. HOW THE BEES CREATE THE PEOPLE AND THE COMMON MOTHER, 321
CONCLUSION, 333
ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES, 341
ANALYSIS OF SUBJECTS, 363