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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
86
Hugh
Miller’s
pets
the
old
red
sandstone
fishes,
that
very
true
vertebrate
skull
and
brain,
of
which
this
is
a
mere
mockery.
{127}
Here
the
whole
animal,
with
his
extraordinary
feeding
mill,
(for
neither
teeth
nor
jaws
is
a
fit
word
for
it,)
is
enclosed
within
an
ever-growing
limestone
castle,
to
the
architecture
of
which
the
Eddystone
and
the
Crystal
Palace
are
bungling
heaps;
without
arms
or
legs,
eyes
or
ears,
and
yet
capable,
in
spite
of
his
perpetual
imprisonment,
of
walking,
feeding,
and
breeding,
doubt
it
not,
merrily
enough.
But
this
result
has
been
attained
at
the
expense
of
a
complication
of
structure,
which
has
baffled
all
human
analysis
and
research
into
final
causes.
As
much
concerning
this
most
miraculous
of
families
as
is
needful
to
be
known,
and
ten
times
more
than
you
are
likely
to
understand,
may
be
read
in
Harvey’s
“Sea-Side
Book,”
pp.
142–
148,—
pages
from
which
you
will
probably
arise
with
a
sense
of
the
infinity
and
complexity
of
Nature,
even
in
what
we
are
pleased
to
call
her
“lower”
forms,
and
the
simplest
and,
as
it
were,
easiest
forms
of
life.
Conceive
a
Crystal
Palace,
(for
mere
difference
in
size,
as
both
the
naturalist
and
the
metaphysician
know,
has
nothing
to
do
with
the
wonder,)
whereof
each
separate
joist,
girder,
and
pane
grows
continually
without
altering
the
shape
of
the
whole;
and
you
have
conceived
only
one
of
the
miracles
embodied
in
that
little
sea-egg,
which
the
Creator
has,
as
it
were,
to
justify
to
man
His
own
immutability,
furnished
with
a
shell
capable
of
enduring
fossil
for
countless
ages,
that
we
may
confess
Him
to
have
been
as
great
when
first
His
Spirit
brooded
on
the
deep,
as
He
is
now
and
will
be
through
all
worlds
to
come.
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