THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE. 45 
him his life long always reverent, yet never super- 
stitious ; wondering at the commonest, but not sur- 
prised by the most strange; free from the idols of 
size and sensuous loveliness; able to see grandeur 
in the minutest objects, beauty in the most un- 
gainly ; estimating each thing not carnally, as the 
vulgar do, by its size or its pleasantness to the 
senses, but spiritually, by the amount of Divine 
thought revealed to him therein; holding every 
phenomenon worth the noting down; believing that 
every pebble holds a treasure, every bud a reve- 
lation; making it a point of conscience to pass 
over nothing through laziness or hastiness, lest the 
vision once offered and despised should be with- 
drawn; and looking at every object as if he were } 
never to behold it again. 2 
Moreover, he must keep himself free from all 
those perturbations of mind which not only weaken 
energy, but darken and confuse the inductive 
faculty ; from haste and laziness, from melancholy, 
testiness, pride, and all the passions which make 
men see only what they wish to see. Of solemn 
