[Note 11: Cultus. Stevenson liked this word. The swarming ant. "The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer."—Proverbs, XXX. 25. For a wonderful description of an ant battle, see Thoreau's Walden.]
[Note 12: Everest. Mount Everest in the Himalayas, is the highest mountain in the world, with an altitude of about 29,000 feet.]
[Note 13: The whole creation groaneth. Romans, VIII, 22.]
[Note 14: That double law of the members. See Note 10 of Chapter VI above.]
[Note 15: Den of the vivisectionist. See Note 2 of Chapter VI above.]
[Note 16: In our isle of terror. Cf. Herriet, The White Island.
"In this world, the isle of dreams,
While we sit by sorrow's streams,
Tears and terrors are our themes.">[
[Note 17: Man that wearies in well-doing. Galatians, VI, 9.]
[Note 18: Surely not all in vain. At heart, Stevenson belongs not to the pessimists nor the skeptics, but to the optimists and the believers. A man may have no formal creed, and yet be a believer.