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uninteresting and so thoroughly well known that it is no longer 
interesting to study her beauties. 
Look for one moment at the most charming, I think, of all 
beauties, the Volvow globator, and watch the easy and graceful 
movements of these little gems of nature as they force their way 
through their watery surroundings, and that idea is soon expelled. 
How these charming little globes of matter gliding about call to 
one’s mind the planets in the ethereal space ! 
This change is owing, I fear, to man’s fickle, unstable, and 
changeable nature. 
Look at the worlds of life and exquisite beauty revealed to us 
by the microscope. Look at the work that is before man and 
woman if they are prepared to investigate and learn. Look at 
the beautiful results, at present very little known, that can be 
arrived at under the head of micro-photography,.by which these 
beauties can be permanently recorded. There is no doubt a 
truly scientific man and lover of nature leads a double life; he 
sees beauty in everything, he admires everything, and his seeing 
leads him on a road without an end. The unscientific man 
simply kicks these object of beauty with his foot from his path, 
and seeks only the artificial life of his race. Again, these 
scientific and unscientific natures have their respective influ- 
ences on the rising generation, either for good, which favours all 
forms of life beneath them, or for bad, which is detrimental to 
all forms of life below them. What can be sadder than to see 
boys cruelly torturing or ill-treating animals, pulling down and 
damaging trees, robbing birds’ nests; this is all brought about 
for the reason that their parents, owing to their ignorance of 
natural history, have never been able to interest the young ones 
in the welfare of all forms of life. I feel sure that were the 
Board Schools, in fact all schools, to teach children to love and 
admire all living things around them, and to teach them re- 
specting their individual lives, we should see far less cruelty and 
destructiveness. 
That admirable society, ‘‘the Society for Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals,’ has done wonderfully good work, and deserves all 
credit ; at the same time it has had to do it by force of the law, 
instead of by the education of the masses to respect and love 
all living things. 
I personally fear the advances of science have been, within 
the last twenty years, far too rapid; invention has followed 
invention like the thunder peals follow one another during a 
storm. The children of the present day become so hardened to 
these continued new inventions and discoveries that they do not 
even trouble themselves about them, and are not taught any- 
thing of the science of the invention. 
Look back only thirty-two years, the age of our Society, and 
