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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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And
do
not
forget,
lastly,
to
ask,
whether
at
Liverpool
or
at
the
British
Museum,
for
the
Holtenias
and
their
congeners,—
hollow
sponges
built
up
of
glassy
spicules,
and
rooted
in
the
mud
by
glass
hairs,
in
some
cases
between
two
and
three
feet
long,
as
flexible
and
graceful
as
tresses
of
snow-white
silk.
Look
at
these,
and
a
hundred
kindred
forms,
and
then
see
how
nature
is
not
only
“maxima
in
minimis”—
greatest
in
her
least,
but
often
“pulcherrima
in
abditis”—
fairest
in
her
most
hidden
works;
and
how
the
Creative
Spirit
has
lavished,
as
it
were,
unspeakable
artistic
skill
on
lowly-organized
creature,
never
till
now
beheld
by
man,
and
buried,
not
only
in
foul
mud,
but
in
their
own
unsightly
heap
of
living
jelly.
But
so
it
was
from
the
beginning;—
and
this
planet
was
not
made
for
man
alone.
Countless
ages
before
we
appeared
on
earth
the
depths
of
the
old
chalk-ocean
teemed
with
forms
as
beautiful
and
perfect
as
those,
their
lineal
descendants,
which
the
dredge
now
brings
up
from
the
Atlantic
sea-floor;
and
if
there
were—
as
my
reason
tells
me
that
there
must
have
been—
final
moral
causes
for
their
existence,
the
only
ones
which
we
have
a
right
to
imagine
are
these—
that
all,
down
to
the
lowest
Rhizopod,
might
delight
themselves,
however
dimly,
in
existing;
and
that
the
Lord
might
delight
Himself
in
them.
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