III.—THE INSECT, THE AGENT OF NATURE.
THE INSECT AS THE AGENT OF NATURE IN THE ACCELERATION OF DEATH AND LIFE.
The insect has not my languages. He neither speaks by voice nor physiognomy. In what manner, then, does he express himself?
He speaks by his energies.
1st. By the immense destructive influence he exercises on the superabundance of Nature, on a swarm of lingering or morbid lives which he hastens to sweep away.