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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
92
But,
in
the
meanwhile,
there
are
animals
in
which
results
so
strange,
fantastic,
even
seemingly
horrible,
are
produced,
that
fallen
man
may
be
pardoned,
if
he
shrinks
from
them
in
disgust.
That,
at
least,
must
be
a
consequence
of
our
own
wrong
state;
for
everything
is
beautiful
and
perfect
in
its
place.
It
may
be
answered,
“Yes,
in
its
place;
but
its
place
is
not
yours.
You
had
no
business
to
look
at
it,
and
must
pay
the
penalty
for
intermeddling.”
I
doubt
that
answer;
for
surely,
if
man
have
liberty
to
do
anything,
he
has
liberty
to
search
out
freely
his
heavenly
Father’s
works;
and
yet
every
one
seems
to
have
his
antipathic
animal;
and
I
know
one
bred
from
his
childhood
to
zoology
by
land
and
sea,
and
bold
in
asserting,
and
honest
in
feeling,
that
all
without
exception
is
beautiful,
who
yet
cannot,
after
handling
and
petting
and
admiring
all
day
long
every
uncouth
and
venomous
beast,
avoid
a
paroxysm
of
horror
at
the
sight
of
the
common
house-spider.
At
all
events,
whether
we
were
intruding
or
not,
in
turning
this
stone,
we
must
pay
a
fine
for
having
done
so;
for
there
lies
an
animal
as
foul
and
monstrous
to
the
eye
as
“hydra,
gorgon,
or
chimæra
dire,”
and
yet
so
wondrously
fitted
to
its
work,
that
we
must
needs
endure
for
our
own
instruction
to
handle
and
to
look
at
it.
Its
name,
if
you
wish
for
it,
is
Nemertes;
probably
N.
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