in the sea, on the earth, and in the air for what?For a little longer duration of this miserable existence, which is the first to be attacked at every moment from all sides, and which, for this reason, they have to defend with anxiety and effort.Now let us imagine this in one particular case. Let us take any animal no matter which and in our imagination freeze the whole of this restless, chaotic striving of all the organic beings.Let us picture to ourselves that drop of water with its infusoria in their brief, restless activity, which we can survey all at once and see at a single glance.Now let the drop slowly solidify and become a crystal-clear, firm, and hard mass, in which the movements of all those little creatures are preserved, frozen for eternity.Would not this drop then present to us the most striking picture of the whole world of organic nature a picture in which the essence of all life is displayed as a vain, restless, and self-contradictory striving, a desperate and fruitless effort, a torment sustained through countless forms?"HELLO, LITTLE SEA MONKEYS.
