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CHAPTEE II. 



CLASSIFICATION OE BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



" With God let us begin, nor from him rove ; 

 Him let us praise ; Him ever serve and love ; 

 The earth is His, and His the wide-spread sea, 

 And every living thing that therein be. 

 God's presence fills all space, upholds this ball ; 

 All need His aid ; His power sustains us all. 

 For we his offspring are, and He in love 

 Points out to man the way to Heaven above." — Araius* . 



The word Zoophyte, as already said, was at first employed 

 to designate various kinds of creatures that were thought to 

 hold a middle place between animals and vegetables. With 

 continental naturalists it is stiU used in this extensive sense, 



* We have taken the liberty of making some changes in this passage from 

 Aratus, a Cilician poet, probably of Tarsus, who lived about 300 years before 

 the birth of Christ. We have given it a place at the beginning of this chap- 

 ter chiefly because the words in Italics were quoted by Paul of Tarsus in ad- 

 dressing the Athenians. 



