# The Bible of nature

Author: Oswald, Felix L. (Felix Leopold), 1845-1906

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72134

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Bible+of+nature+Oswald&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Nature has guarded the health of her creatures by a marvelous system of protective intuitions. The sensitive membrane of the eye resents the intrusion of every foreign substance. An intuitive sense of discomfort announces every injurious extreme of temperature. To the unperverted taste of animals in a state of nature wholesome food is pleasant, injurious substances repulsive or insipid. Captain Kane found that only the rage of famine will tempt the foxes of the Arctic coastlands to touch spoiled meat. In times of scarcity the baboons of the Abyssinian mountains greedily hunt for edible roots, which an unerring faculty enables them to distinguish from the poisonous varieties. The naturalis...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bible-of-nature-72134/chapters/9/index.md)