le duc d'Ossuna, a Spanîsh statesman

Page 146. 1. la forêt de Bimam .... Macbeth, an allusion to Shakespeare's Macbeth (Act v, scène iii and following) where Malcolm's army advances against Macbeth's castle at Dimsinane imder a "camouflage" of leaves and branches.

2. ils font d'un berceau de hasard, etc., they make of an accidentai hirthplace their country forever,

3. Et si c'est infériorité chez eux, etc., and if it is a marked inferiority on their part (on the part of the végétais) noi to he àble to lavish on man the lies of their love for him, let at least the advantage of their immtUàble constancy count for them against the higher but imperfect being (man) whose ever changing mohility they humiliaie.

4. c'est du végétal perfectionné, etc., this bélongs to the improved végétal which we ccdl animal, in its différent degrees, This reads very much like Darwin or Herbert Spencer's transformist philosophy.

5. tout à la fois déprédateurs et proies fuyantes, beasts of prey and run-away prey at the same time,

6. Non qu'ils soient immobiles, I do not mean to say that they are immobile.