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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
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Charles Kingsley
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There
were
great
excuses,
though,
of
old,
for
the
contempt
in
which
the
naturalist
was
held;
great
excuses
for
the
pitying
tone
of
banter
with
which
the
Spectator
talks
of
“the
ingenious”
Don
Saltero
(as
no
doubt
the
Neapolitan
gentleman
talked
of
Ferrante
Imperato
the
apothecary,
and
his
museum);
great
excuses
for
Voltaire,
when
he
classes
the
collection
of
butterflies
among
the
other
“bizarreries
de
l’esprit
humain.”
For,
in
the
last
generation,
the
needs
of
the
world
were
different.
It
had
no
time
for
butterflies
and
fossils.
While
Buonaparte
was
hovering
on
the
Boulogne
coast,
the
pursuits
and
the
education
which
were
needed
were
such
as
would
raise
up
men
to
fight
him;
so
the
coarse,
fierce,
hard-handed
training
of
our
grandfathers
came
when
it
was
wanted,
and
did
the
work
which
was
required
of
it,
else
we
had
not
been
here
now.
Let
us
be
thankful
that
we
have
had
leisure
for
science;
and
show
now
in
war
that
our
science
has
at
least
not
unmanned
us.
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