Excerpt from The ParasiteHere is throughout the realm of Nature a thing of universal scorn. In this world of beauty it is a thing most foul. It eats up millions of the human race. It is' the Parasite.It creeps. Through the world unclean and unashamed. It allies itself to almost every kind of living thing. It does no honest work, it serves no useful purpose. It loafs. It battens upon others from its birth to its ignoble 'death.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.