﻿WITH 
  THE 
  DOMAIN 
  OF 
  THE 
  INORGANIC 
  51 
  

  

  how 
  universal 
  the 
  beauty! 
  But 
  let 
  us 
  be 
  more 
  analytic 
  and 
  

   illustrate 
  in 
  due 
  order 
  the 
  deeper 
  impressions 
  which 
  fill 
  the 
  

   mind 
  after 
  the 
  crowd 
  of 
  details 
  sinks 
  to 
  rest, 
  for 
  these 
  must 
  

   form 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  materials 
  which 
  Biology 
  gives 
  over 
  to 
  

   Philosophy 
  to 
  build 
  with. 
  

  

  3. 
  A 
  Multitude 
  of 
  Individualities,, 
  yet 
  a 
  Sy 
  sterna 
  Naturcz. 
  

  

  When 
  we 
  look 
  at 
  Nature 
  with 
  a 
  fresh 
  eye, 
  in 
  a 
  new 
  coun- 
  

   try, 
  or 
  in 
  some 
  novel 
  experience 
  such 
  as 
  dredging, 
  we 
  have 
  

   a 
  transient 
  impression 
  of 
  overwhelming 
  confusion, 
  as 
  if 
  

   Aladdin's 
  cave 
  had 
  been 
  suddenly 
  burst 
  open 
  before 
  us. 
  

   Many 
  miss 
  this 
  in 
  ordinary 
  circumstances 
  because 
  familiarity 
  

   breeds 
  the 
  contempt 
  of 
  inattention, 
  and 
  also 
  because 
  a 
  very 
  

   large 
  number 
  of 
  living 
  creatures 
  are 
  cryptozoic. 
  For 
  every 
  

   conspicuous 
  plant 
  there 
  are 
  often 
  a 
  score 
  inconspicuous, 
  and 
  

   for 
  every 
  readily 
  visible 
  animal 
  there 
  must 
  be 
  a 
  hundred 
  

   unseen. 
  It 
  is 
  not 
  of 
  individuals 
  that 
  we 
  are 
  thinking, 
  but 
  

   of 
  individualities, 
  of 
  species. 
  There 
  are 
  at 
  least 
  25,000 
  

   named 
  backboned 
  animals, 
  ten 
  times 
  as 
  many 
  named 
  back- 
  

   boneless 
  animals, 
  and 
  about 
  as 
  many 
  plants. 
  There 
  are 
  

   about 
  100,000 
  Dicotyledonous 
  Flowering 
  Plants. 
  Darwin 
  

   speaks 
  of 
  finding 
  twenty 
  different 
  kinds 
  of 
  flowering 
  plants 
  

   on 
  a 
  patch 
  of 
  turf 
  four 
  feet 
  by 
  three, 
  and 
  there 
  may 
  be 
  as 
  

   many 
  different 
  kinds 
  of 
  animals 
  on 
  one 
  stone 
  brought 
  up 
  

   from 
  the 
  sea-floor. 
  

  

  The 
  study 
  of 
  marine 
  animals 
  has 
  been 
  enthusiastic 
  and 
  in- 
  

  

  / 
  

  

  tense 
  for 
  many 
  years, 
  but 
  those 
  who 
  know 
  most 
  about 
  it 
  will 
  

   agree 
  with 
  what 
  the 
  poet 
  Spenser 
  said 
  long 
  ago 
  : 
  

  

  " 
  But 
  what 
  an 
  endlesse 
  worke 
  have 
  I 
  in 
  hand, 
  

   To 
  count 
  the 
  seas 
  abundant 
  progeny, 
  

   Whose 
  fruitful 
  seede 
  farre 
  passeth 
  those 
  on 
  land, 
  

   And 
  also 
  those 
  which 
  wonne 
  in 
  th' 
  azure 
  sky 
  ; 
  

   For 
  much 
  more 
  eath, 
  to 
  tell 
  the 
  starrcs 
  on 
  hy, 
  

  

  