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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
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Charles Kingsley
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But
how
very
lately
have
they
attained
that
firm
and
honourable
standing
ground!
It
is
a
question
whether,
even
twenty
years
ago,
Geology,
as
it
then
stood,
was
worth
troubling
one’s
head
about,
so
little
had
been
really
proved.
And
heavy
and
uphill
was
the
work,
even
within
the
last
fifteen
years,
of
those
who
stedfastly
set
themselves
to
the
task
of
proving
and
of
asserting
at
all
risks,
that
the
Maker
of
the
coal
seam
and
the
diluvial
cave
could
not
be
a
“Deus
quidam
deceptor,”
and
that
the
facts
which
the
rock
and
the
silt
revealed
were
sacred,
not
to
be
warped
or
trifled
with
for
the
sake
of
any
cowardly
and
hasty
notion
that
they
contradicted
His
other
messages.
When
a
few
more
years
are
past,
Buckland
and
Sedgwick,
Murchison
and
Lyell,
Delabêche
and
Phillips,
Forbes
and
Jamieson,
and
the
group
of
brave
men
who
accompanied
and
followed
them,
will
be
looked
back
to
as
moral
benefactors
of
their
race;
and
almost
as
martyrs,
also,
when
it
is
remembered
how
much
misunderstanding,
obloquy,
and
plausible
folly
they
had
to
endure
from
well-meaning
fanatics
like
Fairholme
or
Granville
Penn,
and
the
respectable
mob
at
their
heels
who
tried
(as
is
the
fashion
in
such
cases)
to
make
a
hollow
compromise
between
fact
and
the
Bible,
by
twisting
facts
just
enough
to
make
them
fit
the
fancied
meaning
of
the
Bible,
and
the
Bible
just
enough
to
make
it
fit
the
fancied
meaning
of
the
facts.
But
there
were
a
few
who
would
have
no
compromise;
who
laboured
on
with
a
noble
recklessness,
determined
to
speak
the
thing
which
they
had
seen,
and
neither
more
nor
less,
sure
that
God
could
take
better
care
than
they
of
His
own
everlasting
truth.
And
now
they
have
conquered:
the
facts
which
were
twenty
years
ago
denounced
as
contrary
to
Revelation,
are
at
last
accepted
not
merely
as
consonant
with,
but
as
corroborative
thereof;
and
sound
practical
geologists—
like
Hugh
Miller,
in
his
“Footprints
of
the
Creator,”
and
Professor
Sedgwick,
in
the
invaluable
notes
to
his
“Discourse
on
the
Studies
of
Cambridge”—
have
wielded
in
defence
of
Christianity
the
very
science
which
was
faithlessly
and
cowardly
expected
to
subvert
it.
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