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ven; but space has
allowed no more. Yet we might have spent our time with almost as
much interest and profithad we neglected utterly the animals which we
Glaucus/or The Wonders of the Shore
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have foundand devoted our attention exclusively to the flora of the
rocks. Sea-weeds are no mere playthings for children; and to buy at a
shop some thirty pretty kindspasted on paperwith long names
(probably mis-spelt) written under eachis not by any means to possess a
collection of them. Putting aside the number and the obscurity of their
speciesthe questions which arise in studying their growthreproduction
and organic chemistry are of the very deepest and most important in the
whole range of science; and it will need but a little study of such a book
as Harvey's "Algae to show the wise man that he who has
comprehended (which no man yet does) the mystery of a single spore or
tissue-cell
has reached depths in the great Science of Life" at which an
Owen would still confess himself "blind by excess of light." "Knowest
thou how the bones grow in the womb?" asks the Jewish sagesadly
half self-reprovinglyas he discovers that man is not the measure of all
thingsand that [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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