46 GLAUCUS ; OR, 
and scrupulous reverence for truth; of the habit 
of mind which regards each fact and discovery, not 
as our own possession, but as the possession of its 
Creator, independent of us, our tastes, our needs, 
or our vain-glory, I hardly need to speak; for it is 
the very essence of a naturalist’s faculty—the very 
tenure of his existence: and without truthfulness 
science would be as impossible now as chivalry 
would have been of old. 
And last, but not least, the perfect naturalist 
should have in him the very essence of true chivalry, 
namely, self-devotion; the desire to advance, not 
himself and his own fame or wealth, but knowledge 
and mankind. He should have this great virtue; 
and in spite of many shortcomings (for what man is 
there who liveth and sinneth not ?), naturalists as a 
class have it to a degree which makes them stand 
out most honourably in the midst of a self-seeking 
and mammonite generation, inclined to value every- 
thing by its money price, its private utility. The 
spirit which gives freely, because it knows that it 
has received freely ; which communicates knowledge 
