Note 10 — Chapter XXII · THE LAST HEIGHTS1 (1910–1915)

It is a far cry from the dense materialism of the “dust-to-dust” scientists who content themselves with dissecting poor little murdered bodies to the winged spiritualism of this open-air entomologist, interrogating with his bright, loving glance these little insect souls, at once so wonderful and so unconscious. And they all tell him the same thing: Ipse fecit nos et non ipsi nos.10 (It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves.)