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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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And
do
not
despise
the
creatures
because
they
are
minute.
No
doubt
we
should
most
of
us
prefer
discovering
monstrous
apes
in
the
tropical
forests
of
Borneo,
or
stumbling
upon
herds
of
gigantic
Ammon
sheep
amid
the
rhododendron
thickets
of
the
Himalaya:
but
it
cannot
be;
and
“he
is
a
fool,”
says
old
Hesiod,
“who
knows
not
how
much
better
half
is
than
the
whole.”
Let
us
be
content
with
what
is
within
our
reach.
And
doubt
not
that
in
these
tiny
creatures
are
mysteries
more
than
we
shall
ever
fathom.
The
zoophytes
and
microscopic
animalcules
which
people
every
shore
and
every
drop
of
water,
have
been
now
raised
to
a
rank
in
the
human
mind
more
important,
perhaps,
than
even
those
gigantic
monsters
whose
models
fill
the
lake
at
the
Crystal
Palace.
The
research
which
has
been
bestowed,
for
the
last
century,
upon
these
once
unnoticed
atomies
has
well
repaid
itself;
for
from
no
branch
of
physical
science
has
more
been
learnt
of
the
scientia
scientiarum,
the
priceless
art
of
learning;
no
branch
of
science
has
more
utterly
confounded
a
wisdom
of
the
wise,
shattered
to
pieces
systems
and
theories,
and
the
idolatry
of
arbitrary
names,
and
taught
man
to
be
silent
while
his
Maker
speaks,
than
this
apparent
pedantry
of
zoophytology,
in
which
our
old
distinctions
of
“animal,”
“vegetable,”
and
“mineral”
are
trembling
in
the
balance,
seemingly
ready
to
vanish
like
their
fellows—
“the
four
elements”
of
fire,
earth,
air,
and
water.
No
branch
of
science
has
helped
so
much
to
sweep
away
that
sensuous
idolatry
of
mere
size,
which
tempts
man
to
admire
and
respect
objects
in
proportion
to
the
number
of
feet
or
inches
which
they
occupy
in
space.
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