Sur ce ruban de route, on that stretch of road

5. du lichen pointant du spore, etc., from the lichen hvdding otU of the spore of the ceU in its evcliUion,

Page 153. \. aspirant Dieu, appropriating God to himself.

Page 154. 1. entaillée, indented (by human labor).

2. Colysée, the earth with its dead générations is compared to the Roman Coliseum, where many martyrs died.

3. Le pouce retourné, thumbs down, When spectators at gladiatorial contests tumed down their thumbs, it meant no mercy for the defeated.

Page 155. 1. puisque le frère supérieur, etc., since the brother ahove must destroy his brother helow.

Page 157. 1. du négrier à l'ascète, from the slave-ira^der to the ascetic (idealist).

2. le Dahomey de Behanzin, Dahomey is a French possession in West Africa. It was conquered in 1893-1894. Behanzin was Dahomey 's last niler and made himself notorious for his savagery and cruelty.

Page 159. 1. Formes changées, fond immuable, the change is outside, hiU nothing hasheen aUered wHhin.

2. un abonnement léonin, a tyrannical contract (as per svhscription, abonnement), which gives the employer the lion' s share.

Page 160. 1. Diogène . . . Alexandre, Diogenes, the Greek Cynic (413-323 B. C), asked one day by Alexander the Great what he would most désire as a favor, answered that his only wish was that the king should "keep out of his Ught."

Page 161. 1. voilà les faits, etc., those are thefacts of every second counted by the pendtdum.

Page 162. 1. la danse macabre, the famous Dance of Death of the Middle Ages paînted by many artists and especially by Holbein in the fif teenth century. Macabre stands for Macabre, which is supposed to be the name of the artist who first painted the dance.