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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
102
A
hint
or
two
of
the
beauty
of
the
sea-weeds
has
been
given;
but
space
has
allowed
no
more.
Yet
we
might
have
spent
our
time
with
almost
as
much
interest
and
profit,
had
we
neglected
utterly
the
animals
which
we
have
found,
and
devoted
our
attention
exclusively
to
the
flora
of
the
rocks.
Sea-weeds
are
no
mere
playthings
for
children;
and
to
buy
at
a
shop
some
thirty
pretty
kinds,
pasted
on
paper,
with
long
names
(probably
mis-spelt)
written
under
each,
is
not
by
any
means
to
possess
a
collection
of
them.
Putting
aside
the
number
and
the
obscurity
of
their
species,
the
questions
which
arise
in
studying
their
growth,
reproduction,
and
organic
chemistry
are
of
the
very
deepest
and
most
important
in
the
whole
range
of
science;
and
it
will
need
but
a
little
study
of
such
a
book
as
Harvey’s
“Algæ,”
to
show
the
wise
man
that
he
who
has
comprehended
(which
no
man
yet
does)
the
mystery
of
a
single
spore
or
tissue-cell,
has
reached
depths
in
the
great
“Science
of
Life”
at
which
an
Owen
would
still
confess
himself
“blind
by
excess
of
light.”
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