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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
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Charles Kingsley
31
There
are
those
who
can
sympathise
with
the
gallant
old
Scotch
officer
mentioned
by
some
writer
on
sea-weeds,
who,
desperately
wounded
in
the
breach
at
Badajos,
and
a
sharer
in
all
the
toils
and
triumphs
of
the
Peninsular
war,
could
in
his
old
age
show
a
rare
sea-weed
with
as
much
triumph
as
his
well-earned
medals,
and
talk
over
a
tiny
spore-capsule
with
as
much
zest
as
the
records
of
sieges
and
battles.
Why
not?
That
temper
which
made
him
a
good
soldier
may
very
well
have
made
him
a
good
naturalist
also.
The
late
illustrious
geologist,
Sir
Roderick
Murchison,
was
also
an
old
Peninsular
officer.
I
doubt
not
that
with
him,
too,
the
experiences
of
war
may
have
helped
to
fit
him
for
the
studies
of
peace.
Certainly,
the
best
naturalist,
as
far
as
logical
acumen,
as
well
as
earnest
research,
is
concerned,
whom
England
has
ever
seen,
was
the
Devonshire
squire,
Colonel
George
Montagu,
of
whom
the
late
E.
Forbes
well
says,
that
“had
he
been
educated
a
physiologist”
(and
not,
as
he
was,
a
soldier
and
a
sportsman),
“and
made
the
study
of
Nature
his
aim
and
not
his
amusement,
his
would
have
been
one
of
the
greatest
names
in
the
whole
range
of
British
science.”
I
question,
nevertheless,
whether
he
would
not
have
lost
more
than
he
would
have
gained
by
a
different
training.
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