the role of stabilizer for the general ecology of the globe!”
Captain Nemo stopped, straightened up, took a few steps along the platform, and returned to me:
“As for those billions of tiny animals,” he went on, “those infusoria that live by the millions in one droplet of water, 800,000 of which are needed to weigh one milligram, their role is no less important. They absorb the marine salts, they assimilate the solid elements in the water,
the role of stabilizer for the general ecology of the globe!”
Captain Nemo stopped, straightened up, took a few steps along the platform, and returned to me:
“As for those billions of tiny animals,” he went on, “those infusoria that live by the millions in one droplet of water, 800,000 of which are needed to weigh one milligram, their role is no less important. They absorb the marine salts, they assimilate the solid elements in the water,
