class="tdr">105

II. The Milky Sea, 114 III. The Atom, 128 IV. Blood-Flower, 139 V. The World Makers, 149 VI. Daughter of the Seas, 160 VII. The Stone Picker, 173
VIII. Shells, Mother of Pearl, and Pearl, 182 IX. The Sea Rovers (Poulpe, &c.) 194 X. Crustaceæ. Battle and Intrigue, 202 XI. The Fish, 212 XII. The Whale, 225 XIII. The Syrens, 236 BOOK THIRD. CONQUEST OF THE SEA. I. The Harpoon, 251 II. Discovery of the Three Oceans, 260 III. The Law of Storms, 275 IV. The Polar Seas, 289 V. Man's War upon the Races of the Sea, 306 VI. The Law of the Ocean, 319 BOOK FOURTH. THE RESTORATION OF THE SEA. I. Origin of Sea Bathing, 329 II. Choice of Coast, 340 III. The House, 349 IV. First Aspiration of the Sea, 360 V. Baths. Restoration of Beauty, 369 VI. The Restoration of Heart and Brotherhood, 377 VII. The New Life of the Nations, 388 Notes. 401

---

BOOK FIRST.

A GLANCE UPON THE SEAS.

---

CHAPTER I.

THE SEA AS SEEN FROM THE SHORE.

A gallant Dutch seaman, a cool and stern observer, who has passed his whole life at sea, frankly tells us that his feeling on first seeing the ocean was fear. For all terrestrial animals, water is the non-respirable element, the ever heaving but inevitably asphyxiating enemy; the fatal and eternal barrier between the two worlds. We need not, all things being considered, be at all surprised, if that immense mass of waters which we call the sea, dark and inscrutable in its immense depths, ever and always impresses the human mind with a vague and resistless awe.

The