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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
66
Such
at
least
is
the
conclusion
of
one
who,
studying
certain
families
of
plants,
which
indulge
in
the
most
fantastic
varieties
of
shape
and
size,
and
yet
through
all
their
vagaries
retain—
as
do
the
Palms,
the
Orchids,
the
Euphorbiaceæ—
one
organ,
or
form
of
organs,
peculiar
and
highly
specialized,
yet
constant
throughout
the
whole
of
each
family,
has
been
driven
to
the
belief
that
each
of
these
three
families,
at
least,
has
“sported
off”
from
one
common
ancestor—
one
archetypal
Palm,
one
archetypal
Orchid,
one
archetypal
Euphorbia,
simple,
it
may
be,
in
itself,
but
endowed
with
infinite
possibilities
of
new
and
complex
beauty,
to
be
developed,
not
in
it,
but
in
its
descendants.
He
has
asked
himself,
sitting
alone
amid
the
boundless
wealth
of
tropic
forests,
whether
even
then
and
there
the
great
God
might
not
be
creating
round
him,
slowly
but
surely,
new
forms
of
beauty?
If
he
chose
to
do
it,
could
He
not
do
it?
That
man
found
himself
none
the
worse
Christian
for
the
thought.
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