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generation察the needs of the world were different。  It had no time 

for butterflies and fossils。  While Buonaparte was hovering on the 

Boulogne coast察the pursuits and the education which were needed 

were such as would raise up men to fight him察so the coarse察

fierce察hard´handed training of our grandfathers came when it was 

wanted察and did the work which was required of it察else we had not 

been here now。  Let us be thankful that we have had leisure for 

science察and show now in war that our science has at least not 

unmanned us。



Moreover察Natural History察if not fifty years ago察certainly a 

hundred years ago察was hardly worthy of men of practical common 

sense。  After察indeed察Linne察by his invention of generic and 

specific names察had made classification possible察and by his own 

enormous labours had shown how much could be done when once a 

method was established察the science has grown rapidly enough。  But 

before him little or nothing had been put into form definite enough 

to allure those who as the many always will prefer to profit by 

others' discoveries察than to discover for themselves察and Natural 

History was attractive only to a few earnest seekers察who found too 

much trouble in disencumbering their own minds of the dreams of 

bygone generations whether facts察like cockatrices察basilisks察and 

krakens察the breeding of bees out of a dead ox察and of geese from 

barnacles察or theories察like those of elements察the VIS PLASTRIX in 

Nature察animal spirits察and the other musty heirlooms of 

Aristotleism and Neo´platonism察to try to make a science popular察

which as yet was not even a science at all。  Honour to them察

nevertheless。  Honour to Ray and his illustrious contemporaries in 

Holland and France。  Honour to Seba and Aldrovandus察to Pomet察with 

his ;Historie of Drugges察─even to the ingenious Don Saltero察and 

his tavern´museum in Cheyne Walk。  Where all was chaos察every man 

was useful who could contribute a single spot of organized standing 

ground in the shape of a fact or a specimen。  But it is a question 

whether Natural History would have ever attained its present 

honours察had not Geology arisen察to connect every other branch of 

Natural History with problems as vast and awful as they are 

captivating to the imagination。  Nay察the very opposition with 

which Geology met was of as great benefit to the sister sciences as 

to itself。  For察when questions belonging to the most sacred 

hereditary beliefs of Christendom were supposed to be affected by 

the verification of a fossil shell察or the proving that the 

Maestricht ;homo diluvii testis; was察after all察a monstrous eft察

it became necessary to work upon Conchology察Botany察and 

Comparative Anatomy察with a care and a reverence察a caution and a 

severe induction察which had been never before applied to them察and 

thus gradually察in the last half´century察the whole choir of 

cosmical sciences have acquired a soundness察severity察and fulness察

which render them察as mere intellectual exercises察as valuable to a 

manly mind as Mathematics and Metaphysics。



But how very lately have they attained that firm and honourable 

standing ground  It is a question whether察even twenty years ago察

Geology察as it then stood察was worth troubling one's head about察so 

little had been really proved。  And heavy and uphill was the work察

even within the last fifteen years察of those who stedfastly set 

themselves to the task of proving and of asserting at all risks察

that the Maker of the coal seam and the diluvial cave could not be 

a ;Deus quidam deceptor察─and that the facts which the rock and the 

silt revealed were sacred察not to be warped or trifled with for the 

sake of any cowardly and hasty notion that they contradicted His 

other messages。  When a few more years are past察Buckland and 

Sedgwick察Murchison and Lyell察Delabche and Phillips察Forbes and 

Jamieson察and the group of brave men who accompanied and followed 

them察will be looked back to as moral benefactors of their race察

and almost as martyrs察also察when it is remembered how much 

misunderstanding察obloquy察and plausible folly they had to endure 

from well´meaning fanatics like Fairholme or Granville Penn察and 

the respectable mob at their heels who tried as is the fashion in 

such cases to make a hollow compromise between fact and the Bible察

by twisting facts just enough to make them fit the fancied meaning 

of the Bible察and the Bible just enough to make it fit the fancied 

meaning of the facts。  But there were a few who would have no 

compromise察who laboured on with a noble recklessness察determined 

to speak the thing which they had seen察and neither more nor less察

sure that God could take better care than they of His own 

everlasting truth。  And now they have conquered此 the facts which 

were twenty years ago denounced as contrary to Revelation察are at 

last accepted not merely as consonant with察but as corroborative 

thereof察and sound practical geologists ´ like Hugh Miller察in his 

;Footprints of the Creator察─and Professor Sedgwick察in the 

invaluable notes to his ;Discourse on the Studies of Cambridge; ´ 

have wielded in defence of Christianity the very science which was 

faithlessly and cowardly expected to subvert it。



But if you seek察reader察rather for pleasure than for wisdom察you 

can find it in such studies察pure and undefiled。



Happy察truly察is the naturalist。  He has no time for melancholy 

dreams。  The earth becomes to him transparent察everywhere he sees 

significancies察harmonies察laws察chains of cause and effect 

endlessly interlinked察which draw him out of the narrow sphere of 

self´interest and self´pleasing察into a pure and wholesome region 

of solemn joy and wonder。  He goes up some Snowdon valley察to him 

it is a solemn spot though unnoticed by his companions察where the 

stag's´horn clubmoss ceases to straggle across the turf察and the 

tufted alpine clubmoss takes its place此 for he is now in a new 

world察a region whose climate is eternally influenced by some fresh 

law after which he vainly guesses with a sigh at his own 

ignorance察which renders life impossible to one species察possible 

to another。  And it is a still more solemn thought to him察that it 

was not always so察that aeons and ages back察that rock which he 

passed a thousand feet below was fringed察not as now with fern and 

blue bugle察and white bramble´flowers察but perhaps with the alp´

rose and the ;gemsen´kraut; of Mont Blanc察at least with Alpine 

Saxifrages which have now retreated a thousand feet up the mountain 

side察and with the blue Snow´Gentian察and the Canadian Sedum察which 

have all but vanished out of the British Isles。  And what is it 

which tells him that strange story拭 Yon smooth and rounded surface 

of rock察polished察remark察across the strata and against the grain察

and furrowed here and there察as if by iron talons察with long 

parallel scratches。  It was the crawling of a glacier which 

polished that rock´face察the stones fallen from Snowdon peak into 

the half´liquid lake of ice above察which ploughed those furrows。  

AEons and aeons ago察before the time when Adam first





;Embraced his Eve in happy hour

And every bird in Eden burst

In carol察every bud in flower察





those marks were there察the records of the ;Age of ice察─slight察

truly察to be effaced by the next farmer who needs to build a wall察

but unmistakeable察boundless in significance察like Crusoe's one 

savage footprint on the sea´shore察and the naturalist acknowledges 

the finger´mark of God察and wonders察and worships。



Happy察especially察is the sportsman who is also a naturalist此 for 

as he roves in pursuit of his game察over hills or up the beds of 

streams where no one but a sportsman ever thinks of going察he will 

be certain to see things noteworthy察which the mere naturalist 

would never find察simply because he could never guess that they 

were there to be found。  I do not speak merely of the rare birds 

which may be shot察the curious facts as to the habits of fish which 

may be observed察great as these pleasures are。  I speak of the 

scenery察the weather察the geological formation of the country察its 

vegetation察and the living habits of its denizens。  A sportsman察

out in all weathers察and often dependent for success on his 

knowledge of ;what the sky is going to do察─has opportunities for 

becoming a meteorologist which no one beside but a sailor 

possesses察and one has often longed for a scientific gamekeeper or 

huntsman察who察by discovering a law for the mysterious and 

seemingly capricious phenomena of ;scent察─might perhaps throw 

light on a hundred dark passages of hygrometry。  The fisherman察

too察  what an inexhaustible treasury of wonder lies at his feet察

in the subaqueous world of the commonest mountain burn  All the 

laws which mould a world are there busy察if he but knew it察

fattening his trout for him察and making them rise to the fly察by 

strange electric influences察at one hour rather than at another。  

Many a good geognostic lesson察too察both as to the nature of a 

country's rocks察and as to the laws by which strata are deposited察

may an observing man learn as he wades up the bed of a trout´

stream察not to mention the strange forms and habits of the tribes 

of water´insects。  Moreover察no good fisherman but knows察to his 

sorrow察that there are plenty of minutes察ay察hours察in each day's 

fishing in which he would be right glad of any employment better 

than trying to





;Call spirits from the vasty deep察





who will not





;Come when you do call for them。;





What to do察then拭 You are sitting察perhaps察in your coracle察upon 

some mountain tarn察waiting for a wind察and waiting in vain。





;Keine luft an keine seite

Todes´stille frchterlich察





as Gthe has it ´





;Und der schiffer sieht 

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