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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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Perhaps
you
smile,
in
answer,
at
the
notion
of
becoming
a
“Naturalist:”
and
yet
you
cannot
deny
that
there
must
be
a
fascination
in
the
study
of
Natural
History,
though
what
it
is
is
as
yet
unknown
to
you.
Your
daughters,
perhaps,
have
been
seized
with
the
prevailing
“Pteridomania,”
and
are
collecting
and
buying
ferns,
with
Ward’s
cases
wherein
to
keep
them
(for
which
you
have
to
pay),
and
wrangling
over
unpronounceable
names
of
species
(which
seem
to
be
different
in
each
new
Fern-book
that
they
buy),
till
the
Pteridomania
seems
to
you
somewhat
of
a
bore:
and
yet
you
cannot
deny
that
they
find
an
enjoyment
in
it,
and
are
more
active,
more
cheerful,
more
self-forgetful
over
it,
than
they
would
have
been
over
novels
and
gossip,
crochet
and
Berlin-wool.
At
least
you
will
confess
that
the
abomination
of
“Fancy-work”—
that
standing
cloak
for
dreamy
idleness
(not
to
mention
the
injury
which
it
does
to
poor
starving
needlewomen)—
has
all
but
vanished
from
your
drawing-room
since
the
“Lady-ferns”
and
“Venus’s
hair”
appeared;
and
that
you
could
not
help
yourself
looking
now
and
then
at
the
said
“Venus’s
hair,”
and
agreeing
that
Nature’s
real
beauties
were
somewhat
superior
to
the
ghastly
woollen
caricatures
which
they
had
superseded.
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