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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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The
greatest
difficulty
in
the
way
of
beginners
is
(as
in
most
things)
how
“to
learn
the
art
of
learning.”
They
go
out,
search,
find
less
than
they
expected,
and
give
the
subject
up
in
disappointment.
It
is
good
to
begin,
therefore,
if
possible,
by
playing
the
part
of
“jackal”
to
some
practised
naturalist,
who
will
show
the
tyro
where
to
look,
what
to
look
for,
and,
moreover,
what
it
is
that
he
has
found;
often
no
easy
matter
to
discover.
Forty
years
ago,
during
an
autumn’s
work
of
dead-leaf-searching
in
the
Devon
woods
for
poor
old
Dr.
Turton,
while
he
was
writing
his
book
on
British
land-shells,
the
present
writer
learnt
more
of
the
art
of
observing
than
he
would
have
learnt
in
three
years’
desultory
hunting
on
his
own
account;
and
he
has
often
regretted
that
no
naturalist
has
established
shore-lectures
at
some
watering-place,
like
those
up
hill
and
down
dale
field-lectures
which,
in
pleasant
bygone
Cambridge
days,
Professor
Sedgwick
used
to
give
to
young
geologists,
and
Professor
Henslow
to
young
botanists.
In
the
meanwhile,
to
show
you
something
of
what
may
be
seen
by
those
who
care
to
see,
let
me
take
you,
in
imagination,
to
a
shore
where
I
was
once
at
home,
and
for
whose
richness
I
can
vouch,
and
choose
our
season
and
our
day
to
start
forth,
on
some
glorious
September
or
October
morning,
to
see
what
last
night’s
equinoctial
gale
has
swept
from
the
populous
shallows
of
Torbay,
and
cast
up,
high
and
dry,
on
Paignton
sands.
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