The Life of the Fly
The Life of the Fly
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oubts vanished when I thought upon Fabre's own words in
the first chapter of this book: 'If I write for men of learning,
for philosophers...I write above all things for the young. I want
to make them love the natural story which you make them hate; and
that is why, while keeping strictly to the domain of truth, I
avoid your scientific prose, which too often, alas, seems borrowed
from some Iroquois idiom!'
And I can but apologize if I have been too lavish with my notes to this chapter in particular, which introduces to us, as in a sort of litany, a multitude of the insects studied by the author. For the rest, I have continued my system of references to the earlier Fabre books, whether translated by myself or others. Of the following essays, The Harmas has appeared, under another title, in The Daily Mail; The Pond, Industrial Chemistry and the two Chapters on the bluebottle in The English Review; and The Harmas, The Pond and Industrial Chemistry in the New York Bookman. T
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