10 GLAUCUS; OR, 
were such as would raise up men to fight him; so 
the coarse, fierce, hard-handed training of our grand- 
fathers came when it was wanted, and did the work 
which was required of it, else we had not been 
here now. Let us be thankful that we have had 
leisure for science; and show now in war that our 
science has at least not unmanned us. 
Moreover, Natural History, if not fifty years ago, 
certainly a hundred years ago, was hardly worthy 
of men of practical common sense. After, indeed, 
Linné, by his invention of generic and specific 
names, had made classification possible, and by his 
own enormous labours had shown how much could 
be done when once a method was established, the 
science has grown rapidly enough. But before him 
little or nothing had been put into form definite 
enough to allure those who (as the many always 
will) prefer to profit by others’ discoveries, than to 
discover for themselves; and Natural History was 
attractive only to a few earnest seekers, who found 
too much trouble in disencumbering their own 
minds of the dreams of bygone generations (whether 
