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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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Parsons’
contemptuous
denial,
that
these
complicated
forms
could
be
“the
operations
of
little,
poor,
helpless,
jelly-like
animals,
and
not
the
work
of
more
sure
vegetation;”
than
Baker
the
microscopist’s
detailed
theory
of
their
being
produced
by
the
crystallization
of
the
mineral
salts
in
the
sea-water,
just
as
he
had
seen
“the
particles
of
mercury
and
copper
in
aquafortis
assume
tree-like
forms,
or
curious
delineations
of
mosses
and
minute
shrubs
on
slates
and
stones,
owing
to
the
shooting
of
salts
intermixed
with
mineral
particles:”—
one
smiles
at
it
now:
yet
these
men
were
no
less
sensible
than
we;
and
if
we
know
better,
it
is
only
because
other
men,
and
those
few
and
far
between,
have
laboured
amid
disbelief,
ridicule,
and
error;
needing
again
and
again
to
retrace
their
steps,
and
to
unlearn
more
than
they
learnt,
seeming
to
go
backwards
when
they
were
really
progressing
most:
and
now
we
have
entered
into
their
labours,
and
find
them,
as
I
have
just
said,
more
wondrous
than
all
the
poetic
dreams
of
a
Bonnet
or
a
Darwin.
For
who,
after
all,
to
take
a
few
broad
instances
(not
to
enlarge
on
the
great
root-wonder
of
a
number
of
distinct
individuals
connected
by
a
common
life,
and
forming
a
seeming
plant
invariable
in
each
species),
would
have
dreamed
of
the
“bizarreries”
which
these
very
zoophytes
present
in
their
classification?
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