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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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What
a
change
from
the
temper
of
two
generations
since,
when
the
naturalist
was
looked
on
as
a
harmless
enthusiast,
who
went
“bug-hunting,”
simply
because
he
had
not
spirit
to
follow
a
fox!
There
are
those
alive
who
can
recollect
an
amiable
man
being
literally
bullied
out
of
the
New
Forest,
because
he
dared
to
make
a
collection
(at
this
moment,
we
believe,
in
some
unknown
abyss
of
that
great
Avernus,
the
British
Museum)
of
fossil
shells
from
those
very
Hordwell
Cliffs,
for
exploring
which
there
is
now
established
a
society
of
subscribers
and
correspondents.
They
can
remember,
too,
when,
on
the
first
appearance
of
Bewick’s
“British
Birds,”
the
excellent
sportsman
who
brought
it
down
to
the
Forest
was
asked,
Why
on
earth
he
had
bought
a
book
about
“cock
sparrows”?
and
had
to
justify
himself
again
and
again,
simply
by
lending
the
book
to
his
brother
sportsmen,
to
convince
them
that
there
were
rather
more
than
a
dozen
sorts
of
birds
(as
they
then
held)
indigenous
to
Hampshire.
But
the
book,
perhaps,
which
turned
the
tide
in
favour
of
Natural
History,
among
the
higher
classes
at
least,
in
the
south
of
England,
was
White’s
“History
of
Selborne.”
A
Hampshire
gentleman
and
sportsman,
whom
everybody
knew,
had
taken
the
trouble
to
write
a
book
about
the
birds
and
the
weeds
in
his
own
parish,
and
the
every-day
things
which
went
on
under
his
eyes,
and
everyone
else’s.
And
all
gentlemen,
from
the
Weald
of
Kent
to
the
Vale
of
Blackmore,
shrugged
their
shoulders
mysteriously,
and
said,
“Poor
fellow!”
till
they
opened
the
book
itself,
and
discovered
to
their
surprise
that
it
read
like
any
novel.
And
then
came
a
burst
of
confused,
but
honest
admiration;
from
the
young
squire’s
“Bless
me!
who
would
have
thought
that
there
were
so
many
wonderful
things
to
be
seen
in
one’s
own
park!”
to
the
old
squire’s
more
morally
valuable
“Bless
me!
why,
I
have
seen
that
and
that
a
hundred
times,
and
never
thought
till
now
how
wonderful
they
were!”
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