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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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These
are
but
a
few
of
the
wonders
which
the
classification
of
marine
animals
affords;
and
only
drawn
from
one
class
of
them,
though
almost
as
common
among
every
other
family
of
that
submarine
world
whereof
Spenser
sang—
“Oh,
what
an
endless
work
have
I
in
hand,
To
count
the
sea’s
abundant
progeny!
Whose
fruitful
seed
far
passeth
those
in
land,
And
also
those
which
won
in
th’
azure
sky,
For
much
more
earth
to
tell
the
stars
on
high,
Albe
they
endless
seem
in
estimation,
Than
to
recount
the
sea’s
posterity;
So
fertile
be
the
flouds
in
generation,
So
huge
their
numbers,
and
so
numberless
their
nation.”
But
these
few
examples
will
be
sufficient
to
account
both
for
the
slow
pace
at
which
the
knowledge
of
sea-animals
has
progressed,
and
for
the
allurement
which
men
of
the
highest
attainments
have
found,
and
still
find,
in
it.
And
when
to
this
we
add
the
marvels
which
meet
us
at
every
step
in
the
anatomy
and
the
reproduction
of
these
creatures,
and
in
the
chemical
and
mechanical
functions
which
they
fulfil
in
the
great
economy
of
our
planet,
we
cannot
wonder
at
finding
that
books
which
treat
of
them
carry
with
them
a
certain
charm
of
romance,
and
feed
the
play
of
fancy,
and
that
love
of
the
marvellous
which
is
inherent
in
man,
at
the
same
time
that
they
lead
the
reader
to
more
solemn
and
lofty
trains
of
thought,
which
can
find
their
full
satisfaction
only
in
self-forgetful
worship,
and
that
hymn
of
praise
which
goes
up
ever
from
land
and
sea,
as
well
as
from
saints
and
martyrs
and
the
heavenly
host,
“O
all
ye
works
of
the
Lord,
and
ye,
too,
spirits
and
souls
of
the
righteous,
praise
Him,
and
magnify
Him
for
ever!”
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