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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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Meanwhile,
I
hope—
though
I
dare
not
say
I
trust—
to
see
the
day
when
the
boys
of
each
of
our
large
schools
shall
join—
like
those
of
Marlborough
and
Clifton—
the
same
freemasonry;
and
have
their
own
Naturalists’
Clubs;
nay
more;
when
our
public
schools
and
universities
shall
awake
to
the
real
needs
of
the
age,
and—
even
to
the
curtailing
of
the
time
usually
spent
in
not
learning
Latin
and
Greek—
teach
boys
the
rudiments
at
least
of
botany,
zoology,
geology,
and
so
forth;
and
when
the
public
opinion,
at
least
of
the
refined
and
educated,
shall
consider
it
as
ludicrous—
to
use
no
stronger
word—
to
be
ignorant
of
the
commonest
facts
and
laws
of
this
living
planet,
as
to
be
ignorant
of
the
rudiments
of
two
dead
languages.
All
honour
to
the
said
two
languages.
Ignorance
of
them
is
a
serious
weakness;
for
it
implies
ignorance
of
many
things
else;
and
indeed,
without
some
knowledge
of
them,
the
nomenclature
of
the
physical
sciences
cannot
be
mastered.
But
I
have
got
to
discover
that
a
boy’s
time
is
more
usefully
spent,
and
his
intellect
more
methodically
trained,
by
getting
up
Ovid’s
Fasti
with
an
ulterior
hope
of
being
able
to
write
a
few
Latin
verses,
than
in
getting
up
Professor
Rolleston’s
“Forms
of
Animal
Life,”
or
any
other
of
the
excellent
Scientific
Manuals
for
beginners,
which
are
now,
as
I
said,
happily
so
numerous.
May
that
day
soon
come;
and
an
old
dream
of
mine,
and
of
my
scientific
friends,
be
fulfilled
at
last.
And
so
I
end
this
little
book,
hoping,
even
praying,
that
it
may
encourage
a
few
more
labourers
to
go
forth
into
a
vineyard,
which
those
who
have
toiled
in
it
know
to
be
full
of
ever-fresh
health,
and
wonder
and
simple
joy,
and
the
presence
and
the
glory
of
Him
whose
name
is
LOVE.
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