Haeckel, see page 19, note

11. une fédération d'amibes, the amcebas {amibes) are considered by scientists as representing the lowest and most primitive form of hving organisms.

12. Lucrèce, Titus Lucretius Carus (98-55 B. C.), the Latin poet, author of De Rerum Natura.

Page 21. 1. un univers pluraliste, a pluralistic universe, i.e., a universe constituted of many différent parts, not ail of them reducible to the same pattem either in theory or in practice. See following note on monisms.

2. monisme, a system of philosophy which considers the world of nature and thought as essentially one and alike.

3. un système de compensations, s^ei^merson's essay "Compensation" (^«say«, Ist séries, III).

Page 22. 1. le Candide de Voltaire. Vd4«âfé, François Arouet de (1694-1778), wrote among other contes philosophiques a story called Candide ou V optimisme, a satire of the optimistic views otL\ss»X!L«sA*Oofc world.

2. Théodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Amencsin statesman and writer, who advocated ''the strenuous life'' (his bookby the same name was translatée! into French 85 la Vie intense),