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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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For
here
we
have
a
simple,
and,
as
it
were,
crude
form;
of
which,
if
we
dared
to
indulge
in
reveries,
we
might
say
that
the
Creative
Mind
realized
it
before
either
Actiniæ
or
Holothurians,
and
then
went
on
to
perfect
the
idea
contained
in
it
in
two
different
directions;
dividing
it
into
two
different
families,
and
making
on
its
model,
by
adding
new
organs,
and
taking
away
old
ones,
in
one
direction
the
whole
family
of
Actiniæ
(sea-anemones),
and
in
a
quite
opposite
one
the
Holothuriæ,
those
strange
sea-cucumbers,
with
their
mouth-fringe
of
feathery
gills,
of
which
you
shall
see
some
anon.
Thus
there
has
been,
in
the
Creative
Mind,
as
it
gave
life
to
new
species,
a
development
of
the
idea
on
which
older
species
were
created,
in
order—
we
may
fancy—
that
every
mesh
of
the
great
net
might
gradually
be
supplied,
and
there
should
be
no
gaps
in
the
perfect
variety
of
Nature’s
forms.
This
development
is
one
which
we
must
believe
to
be
at
least
possible,
if
we
allow
that
a
Mind
presides
over
the
universe,
and
not
a
mere
brute
necessity,
a
Law
(absurd
misnomer)
without
a
Lawgiver;
and
to
it
(strangely
enough
coinciding
here
and
there
with
the
Platonic
doctrine
of
Eternal
Ideas
existing
in
the
Divine
Mind)
all
fresh
inductive
discovery
seems
to
point
more
and
more.
[Picture:
1.
Peachia
Hastata.
2.
Uraster
Rubens]
Let
me
speak
freely
a
few
words
on
this
important
matter.
Geology
has
disproved
the
old
popular
belief
that
the
universe
was
brought
into
being
as
it
now
exists
by
a
single
fiat.
We
know
that
the
work
has
been
gradual;
that
the
earth
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