Art Forms in Nature is an Ernst Haeckel book.
Knowledge of nature is “natural aesthetics”. Accordingly, aesthetics are nothing more than reflections of nature itself. Nature, which develops out of and into itself, is “beautiful”.
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Little people in the City
“They’re not pets, Susan,” says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening sunlight; a lone office worker, less than an inch high, looks out over the river in his lunch break, dreaming of “packing it all in”; and a tiny couple share a “last kiss” against the soft neon lights of the city at midnight.[1]
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The history of military uniforms is (perhaps fortunately) much shorter than the history of warfare. Men have been fighting in more or less organized bodies since they became a man. (…)
The decline of feudalism and the rise of the power of the monarchy may be noted in two orders issued by Henry VIII. In the first, in 1512, three years after the beginning of his reign, he orders the Earl of Shrewsbury to raise an army to oppose a threatened invasion and to give the soldiers such badges he thinks desirable. In the second order, issued in the thirty-sixth year of his reign, Henry is much more explicit.
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