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Glaucus; The Wonders of the Shore

By Charles Kingsley

2020-02-13 00:58:23

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 “biza ... Read more
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. Less

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File size2522.02 KB
Print pages332
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2011-07-17
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1414216423
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Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated w...

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