Excerpt from Life and Her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life From the Amoeba to the InsectsThe plan of this work is so fully explained in the Introductory Chapter that but little preface is needed. Its main Object is to acquaint young people with the structure and habits Of the lower forms Of life, and to do this in a more systematic way than is usual in ordinary works on Natural History, and more simply than in text-books on Zoology.For this reason I have adopted the title Life and her Children, to express the family bond uniting all living things, as we use the term Nature and her Works, to embrace all organic and inorganic pheno mena, and I have been more careful to sketch in bold outline the leading features Of each division, than to dwell upon the minor differences by which it' is separated into groups.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.