“THE MIMIC FIRES OF OCEAN.” G. Clarke Nuttall 1320 THE JELLY-FISH AND OTHER HYDROZOA. P. Martin Duncan 1324 FISHES. Andrew Wilson 1337 WONDERS OF THE SHORE. Charles Kingsley 1357 CRABS, PRAWNS, AND LOBSTERS. Philip Henry Gosse 1374 REPTILES. Peter Mark Roget 1379 THE CLASSIFICATION AND ORIGIN OF INSECTS. Lord Avebury 1401 INSECTS: THEIR WINGS, STINGS, EARS, AND EYES. Philip Henry Gosse 1425 FAIRY FLIES. Fred. Enock 1449 INSECT TRANSFORMATIONS. Andrew Wilson 1458 STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. Charles Darwin 1464 NATURAL SELECTION. Charles Darwin. 1482 MAMMALIA. Baron Cuvier 1513 ZOOLOGICAL ZONES. Sir Richard Owen 1520 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS. William Hughes 1535 CETACEA. Peter Mark Roget 1561 HUNTING AND FISHING OF ANIMALS. Frédéric Houssay 1565 THE DEATH-FEIGNING INSTINCT. W. H. Hudson 1577 BIRDS. J. Arthur Thomson 1582 MIMICRY. David Robertson 1593 DWELLINGS. Frederic Houssay 1601 MAN’S FIRST APPEARANCE. Boyd Dawkins 1647 MAN’S PRIMITIVE CONDITION. Duke of Argyl 1656 RACES OF MANKIND. Wiliam Hughes 1667 THE HUMAN RACE. Louis Figuier 1679 INDEX 1695 THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE (VOLUME FOUR) THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE OMNIPRESENCE OF LIFE --GEORGE HENRY LEWES Come with me, and lovingly study Nature, as she breathes, palpitates, and works under myriad forms of Life-forms unseen, unsuspected, or unheeded by the mass of ordinary men. Our course may be through park and meadow, garden and lane, over the swelling hills and spacious heaths, beside the running and sequestered streams along the tawny coast, out on the dark and dangerous reefs, or under dripping caves and slippery edges. It matters little where we go: everywhere--in the air above, the earth beneath, and waters under the earth--we are surrounded with Life. Avert your eyes a while from our human world, with its ceaseless anxieties, its noble sorrow, poignant, yet sublime, of conscious imperfection aspiring to higher states, and contemplate the calmer activities of that other world with which we are so mysteriously related. I hear you exclaim, “The proper study of mankind is man;”