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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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You
cannot
deny,
I
say,
that
there
is
a
fascination
in
this
same
Natural
History.
For
do
not
you,
the
London
merchant,
recollect
how
but
last
summer
your
douce
and
portly
head-clerk
was
seized
by
two
keepers
in
the
act
of
wandering
in
Epping
Forest
at
dead
of
night,
with
a
dark
lantern,
a
jar
of
strange
sweet
compound,
and
innumerable
pocketfuls
of
pill-boxes;
and
found
it
very
difficult
to
make
either
his
captors
or
you
believe
that
he
was
neither
going
to
burn
wheat-ricks,
nor
poison
pheasants,
but
was
simply
“sugaring
the
trees
for
moths,”
as
a
blameless
entomologist?
And
when,
in
self-justification,
he
took
you
to
his
house
in
Islington,
and
showed
you
the
glazed
and
corked
drawers
full
of
delicate
insects,
which
had
evidently
cost
him
in
the
collecting
the
spare
hours
of
many
busy
years,
and
many
a
pound,
too,
out
of
his
small
salary,
were
you
not
a
little
puzzled
to
make
out
what
spell
there
could
be
in
those
“useless”
moths,
to
draw
out
of
his
warm
bed,
twenty
miles
down
the
Eastern
Counties
Railway,
and
into
the
damp
forest
like
a
deer-stealer,
a
sober
white-headed
Tim
Linkinwater
like
him,
your
very
best
man
of
business,
given
to
the
reading
of
Scotch
political
economy,
and
gifted
with
peculiarly
clear
notions
on
the
currency
question?
It
is
puzzling,
truly.
I
shall
be
very
glad
if
these
pages
help
you
somewhat
toward
solving
the
puzzle.
We
shall
agree
at
least
that
the
study
of
Natural
History
has
become
now-a-days
an
honourable
one.
A
Cromarty
stonemason
was
till
lately—
God
rest
his
noble
soul!—
the
most
important
man
in
the
City
of
Edinburgh,
by
dint
of
a
work
on
fossil
fishes;
and
the
successful
investigator
of
the
minutest
animals
takes
place
unquestioned
among
men
of
genius,
and,
like
the
philosopher
of
old
Greece,
is
considered,
by
virtue
of
his
science,
fit
company
for
dukes
and
princes.
Nay,
the
study
is
now
more
than
honourable;
it
is
(what
to
many
readers
will
be
a
far
higher
recommendation)
even
fashionable.
Every
well-educated
person
is
eager
to
know
something
at
least
of
the
wonderful
organic
forms
which
surround
him
in
every
sunbeam
and
every
pebble;
and
books
of
Natural
History
are
finding
their
way
more
and
more
into
drawing-rooms
and
school-rooms,
and
exciting
greater
thirst
for
a
knowledge
which,
even
twenty
years
ago,
was
considered
superfluous
for
all
but
the
professional
student.
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