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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
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Charles Kingsley
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“Of
fate,
free-will,
foreknowledge
absolute,
And
found
no
end,
in
wandering
mazes
lost.”
Seriously,
if
we
wish
rural
walks
to
do
our
children
any
good,
we
must
give
them
a
love
for
rural
sights,
an
object
in
every
walk;
we
must
teach
them—
and
we
can
teach
them—
to
find
wonder
in
every
insect,
sublimity
in
every
hedgerow,
the
records
of
past
worlds
in
every
pebble,
and
boundless
fertility
upon
the
barren
shore;
and
so,
by
teaching
them
to
make
full
use
of
that
limited
sphere
in
which
they
now
are,
make
them
faithful
in
a
few
things,
that
they
may
be
fit
hereafter
to
be
rulers
over
much.
I
may
seem
to
exaggerate
the
advantages
of
such
studies;
but
the
question
after
all
is
one
of
experience:
and
I
have
had
experience
enough
and
to
spare
that
what
I
say
is
true.
I
have
seen
the
young
man
of
fierce
passions,
and
uncontrollable
daring,
expend
healthily
that
energy
which
threatened
daily
to
plunge
him
into
recklessness,
if
not
into
sin,
upon
hunting
out
and
collecting,
through
rock
and
bog,
snow
and
tempest,
every
bird
and
egg
of
the
neighbouring
forest.
I
have
seen
the
cultivated
man,
craving
for
travel
and
for
success
in
life,
pent
up
in
the
drudgery
of
London
work,
and
yet
keeping
his
spirit
calm,
and
perhaps
his
morals
all
the
more
righteous,
by
spending
over
his
microscope
evenings
which
would
too
probably
have
gradually
been
wasted
at
the
theatre.
I
have
seen
the
young
London
beauty,
amid
all
the
excitement
and
temptation
of
luxury
and
flattery,
with
her
heart
pure
and
her
mind
occupied
in
a
boudoir
full
of
shells
and
fossils,
flowers
and
sea-weeds;
keeping
herself
unspotted
from
the
world,
by
considering
the
lilies
of
the
field,
how
they
grow.
And
therefore
it
is
that
I
hail
with
thankfulness
every
fresh
book
of
Natural
History,
as
a
fresh
boon
to
the
young,
a
fresh
help
to
those
who
have
to
educate
them.
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