358 STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
But the zoologist has not even this forlorn hope to 
look to Let him spend his youth in travel, his 
manhood in study, and his fortune in a library and 
museum, let his labour have been almost as long 
as his life, he can neither apply the knowledge thus 
gained to the marketable wants of mankind, or to pro- 
curing a respectable competence. Neither can he 
look, as a last resource, to the hope of some small 
place of profit, or some slender pension, as a slight 
acknowledgment from the government or from 
his sovereign, for that noble disinterestedness which 
led him to the pursuit of abstract truth, rather than 
to seek personal aggrandisement in the strife and 
intrigues of public life. 
(246.) Zoology, indeed, may be said to compre- 
hend comparative anatomy, in the same way as 
mineralogy does chemistry; for both, in fact, re- 
gard the analysis of their respective sciences. 
And it may be urged, perhaps, that anatomy is not 
altogether in the same deplorable state as zoology 
We contend not that it is; but we maintain that.the 
two sciences are so vast, that there never yet ex- 
isted an individual (and we except not one whom 
the world has just lost) who has reached a pre- 
eminent station in both. Besides, anatomy, with 
us, only leads to pecuniary or honorary advantage, 
when it is confined to the human subject. Anato- 
mical zoology is altogether unproductive of worldly 
goods; and therefore, with the exception of being 
followed up, as an amusement, by the wealthy 
members of the medical profession, it has been 
long ago resigned into the hands of the pensioned 
members of the French Institute,—to those, in 
