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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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It
might
have
made
him
a
more
learned
systematizer;
but
would
it
have
quickened
in
him
that
“seeing”
eye
of
the
true
soldier
and
sportsman,
which
makes
Montagu’s
descriptions
indelible
word-pictures,
instinct
with
life
and
truth?
“There
is
no
question,”
says
E.
Forbes,
after
bewailing
the
vagueness
of
most
naturalists,
“about
the
identity
of
any
animal
Montagu
described.
.
.
.
He
was
a
forward-looking
philosopher;
he
spoke
of
every
creature
as
if
one
exceeding
like
it,
yet
different
from
it,
would
be
washed
up
by
the
waves
next
tide.
Consequently
his
descriptions
are
permanent.”
Scientific
men
will
recognize
in
this
the
highest
praise
which
can
be
bestowed,
because
it
attributes
to
him
the
highest
faculty—
The
Art
of
Seeing;
but
the
study
and
the
book
would
not
have
given
that.
It
is
God’s
gift
wheresoever
educated:
but
its
true
school-room
is
the
camp
and
the
ocean,
the
prairie
and
the
forest;
active,
self-helping
life,
which
can
grapple
with
Nature
herself:
not
merely
with
printed-books
about
her.
Let
no
one
think
that
this
same
Natural
History
is
a
pursuit
fitted
only
for
effeminate
or
pedantic
men.
I
should
say,
rather,
that
the
qualifications
required
for
a
perfect
naturalist
are
as
many
and
as
lofty
as
were
required,
by
old
chivalrous
writers,
for
the
perfect
knight-errant
of
the
Middle
Ages:
for
(to
sketch
an
ideal,
of
which
I
am
happy
to
say
our
race
now
affords
many
a
fair
realization)
our
perfect
naturalist
should
be
strong
in
body;
able
to
haul
a
dredge,
climb
a
rock,
turn
a
boulder,
walk
all
day,
uncertain
where
he
shall
eat
or
rest;
ready
to
face
sun
and
rain,
wind
and
frost,
and
to
eat
or
drink
thankfully
anything,
however
coarse
or
meagre;
he
should
know
how
to
swim
for
his
life,
to
pull
an
oar,
sail
a
boat,
and
ride
the
first
horse
which
comes
to
hand;
and,
finally,
he
should
be
a
thoroughly
good
shot,
and
a
skilful
fisherman;
and,
if
he
go
far
abroad,
be
able
on
occasion
to
fight
for
his
life.
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