October 6 + 

In London once more, living at her flat and using her furniture. + 

The Chalcidoidea are minute winged insects that parasitise other insects, and in the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum (Vol. I, 1912) you shall find an enormous catalogue of them by a person named Girault who writes the following dedication: + 

“I respectfully dedicate this little portion of work to science, common sense or true knowledge. I am convinced that human welfare is so dependent upon science that civilisation would not endure without it, and that what is meant by progress would be impossible. Also I am convinced that the great majority of mankind are too ignorant, that education is too archaic and impractical as looked at from the standpoint of intrinsic knowledge. There is too little known of the essential unity of the Universe and of things included, for instance, man himself. Opinions and prejudices rule in the place of what is true.⁠ ⁠…” + 

Part II is dedicated to: + 

“The genius of mankind, especially to that form of it expressed in monistic philosophy, whose conceived perception is the highest attainment reached by man.” + 

I can only echo Whistler’s remark one day as he stood before an execrably bad drawing: “God bless my soul”⁠—uttered slowly and thoughtfully and then repeated. + 

The beauty of it is that the Editor adds a serious footnote, dissociating himself, and a Scarabee to whom I showed the Work, read it with a clouded brow and then said: “I think it rather out of place in a paper of this sort.” + 

(Tableau.) + 