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CHAPTER II. 
CLASSIFICATION OF 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.” — Aratus*. 
Tue 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 still 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. 
