Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-12 | Page 7 | Man's Mysterious Adversaries

I ivane, more atrocious, more Infernal than ours. One would think that It was born of some eofnet that had lost Its course and died mad In space. In vain does it seize upon life with an authority, a fecundity unequaled here below; we cannot accustom ourselves to the Idea that It Is a thought of that Nature of whom we fondly believe be-lieve ourfelves to be the privileged children and probably the Ideal to which all the earth's effort tend. Only Uie Infinitely small disconcerts us more; but what, In reality, is the Infinitely Email other than an Insect which our eyes do not sec? MAN'S MYSTERIOUS ADVERSARIES. ADVERSA-RIES. The insect does not belong to our world. The other animals, the plants even, notwithstanding their dumb life and the great -secrets which they rherlsh, do not seem wholly foreign to us. In spite of all wo feel n cer-laln cer-laln earthly brotherhood In them. They often surprise and amine our thought, but do, not upset it from lop to bottom. Tbe Insect, on -the nther hand, has something that does not teem to belong to the habits, to the ethics, to the psychology of our globe. One would b Inclined to say that it comes from another planet, more monstrous, more energetic, more la-