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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
118
And
as
I
thought
over
the
whole
hapless
question
of
sanitary
reform,
proved
long
since
a
moral
duty
to
God
and
man,
possible,
easy,
even
pecuniarily
profitable,
and
yet
left
undone,
there
seemed
a
sublime
irony,
most
humbling
to
man,
in
some
of
Nature’s
processes,
and
in
the
silent
and
unobtrusive
perfection
with
which
she
has
been
taught
to
anticipate,
since
the
foundation
of
the
world,
some
of
the
loftiest
discoveries
of
modern
science,
of
which
we
are
too
apt
to
boast
as
if
we
had
created
the
method
by
discovering
its
possibility.
Created
it?
Alas
for
the
pride
of
human
genius,
and
the
autotheism
which
would
make
man
the
measure
of
all
things,
and
the
centre
of
the
universe!
All
the
invaluable
laws
and
methods
of
sanitary
reform
at
best
are
but
clumsy
imitations
of
the
unseen
wonders
which
every
animalcule
and
leaf
have
been
working
since
the
world’s
foundation;
with
this
slight
difference
between
them
and
us,
that
they
fulfil
their
appointed
task,
and
we
do
not.
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