Note 8 — Chapter II · THE LANGUEDOCIAN SCORPION: FOOD

For the third time in the course of our studies, with reference to the young first of the Lycosa8, then of the Clotho Spider9, and now of the Scorpion, we are led back to the same suspicion. Is it a fact that animals of an organization very different from our own, deprived of an individual temperature determined by an active oxidation, are governed by biological laws which are immutable in the whole series of living creatures? Need movement in them be always the result of combustion for which eating would furnish the materials? Might they not derive their activity, at least in part, from the circumambient energies, heat, electricity, light and so on, varying modes of the same motive power?