On account of its vast importance, [63]
CHAPTER II.—COMPASSION.
The artist Gros reproached a young man for cruelty towards a butterfly, [67]
Lyonnet, the naturalist, equally insisted on tenderness towards even the lowest forms of life, [68]
The writer records his adventure with a drone, which he thought he had killed, in a moment of petulance, [69]
His happiness on seeing the insect revive, [70]
Begins to study the insect seriously on a Swiss tour, [70]
Another extract from Madame Michelet's Journal, [71]
In which is described the author's retreat at Montreux, on the shore of the Lake of Geneva, [72]
In one of her walks she observes a combat between a stag-beetle and a beetle of inferior size, [73]