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The Insect

by Jules Michelet

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  1. 1Notes
  2. 2I — The Living Infinite
  3. 3II — Our Studies at Paris and in Switzerland
  4. 4III — Our Studies at Fontainebleau
  5. 5IV — Our Studies at Fontainebleau. (Continued.)
  6. 6Chapter I
  7. 7Chapter II — Compassion
  8. 8Chapter III — World-Builders
  9. 9Chapter IV — Love and Death
  10. 10Chapter V — The Orphan: Its Feebleness
  11. 11Chapter VI — The Mummy, Nymph, or Chrysalis
  12. 12Chapter VII — The Phœnix
  13. 13Chapter I — Swammerdam
  14. 14Chapter II — The Microscope — Has the Insect a Physiognomy?
  15. 15Chapter III — The Insect as the Agent of Nature in the Acceleration…
  16. 16Chapter IV — The Insect as Man’s Auxiliary
  17. 17Chapter V — A Phantasmagoria of Light and Colour
  18. 18Chapter VI — The Silkworm
  19. 19Chapter VII — Instruments of the Insect: And Its Chemical Energies,…
  20. 20Chapter VIII — On the Renovation of Our Arts by the Study of the In…
  21. 21Chapter IX — The Spider — Industry — The Stoppage
  22. 22Chapter X — The Home and Loves of the Spider
  23. 23Chapter I — The City in the Shadows: The Termites, or White Ants
  24. 24Chapter II — The Ants — Their Domestic Economy — Their Nuptials
  25. 25Chapter III — The Ants — Their Flocks and Their Slaves
  26. 26Chapter IV — The Ants — Civil War — Extermination of the Community
  27. 27Chapter V — The Wasps: Their Fury of Improvisation
  28. 28Chapter VI — “The Bees” of Virgil
  29. 29Chapter VII — The Bee in the Fields
  30. 30Chapter VIII — The Bees as Architects: The City
  31. 31Chapter IX — How the Bees Create the People and the Common Mother
  32. 32Book the First — Metamorphosis
  33. 33Chapter II — Compassion
  34. 34Chapter III — World-Builders
  35. 35Chapter IV — Love and Death
  36. 36Chapter V — The Orphan: Its Feebleness
  37. 37Chapter VI — The Mummy, Nymph, or Chrysalis
  38. 38Chapter VII — The Phœnix
  39. 39Book the Second — Mission and Arts of the Insect
  40. 40Chapter II — The Microscope: Has the Insect a Physiognomy?
  41. 41Chapter IV — The Insect as Man’s Auxiliary
  42. 42Chapter V — A Phantasmagoria of Light and Colour
  43. 43Chapter VI — The Silkworm
  44. 44Chapter IX — The Spider — Industry — Standing Still
  45. 45Chapter X — The Home and Loves of the Spider
  46. 46Book the Third — Communities of Insects
  47. 47Chapter II — The Ants — Their Domestic Economy — Their Nuptials
  48. 48Chapter III — The Ants: Their Flocks and Their Slaves
  49. 49Chapter IV — The Ants: Civil War — Extermination of the Community
  50. 50Chapter V — The Wasps: Their Fury of Improvisation
  51. 51Chapter VI — “The Bees” of Virgil
  52. 52Chapter VII — The Bee in the Fields
  53. 53Chapter VIII — The Bees as Architects: The City

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