358 STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



But the zoologist has not even this forlorn hope to 

 look to. Let him spend his youth in travel, his 

 manhood in study, and his fortune in a library and 

 museum, let his labour have been almost as long 

 as his life, he can neither apply the knowledge thus 

 gained to the marketable wants of mankind, or to pro- 

 curing a respectable competence. Neither can he 

 look, as a last resource, to the hope of some small 

 place of profit, or some slender pension, as a slight 

 acknowledgment from the government or from 

 his sovereign, for that noble disinterestedness which 

 led him to the pursuit of abstract truth, rather than 

 to seek personal aggrandisement in the strife and 

 intrigues of public life. 



(24-6.) Zoology, indeed, may be said to compre- 

 hend comparative anatomy, in the same way as 

 mineralogy does chemistry ; for both, in fact, re- 

 gard the analysis of their respective sciences. 

 And it may be urged, perhaps, that anatomy is not 

 altogether in the same deplorable state as zoology 

 We contend not that it is ; but we maintain that the 

 two sciences are so vast, that there never yet ex- 

 isted an individual (and we except not one whom 

 the world has just lost) who has reached a pre- 

 eminent station in both. Besides, anatomy, with 

 us, only leads to pecuniary or honorary advantage, 

 when it is confined to the human subject. Anato- 

 mical zoology is altogether unproductive of worldly 

 goods ; and therefore, with the exception of being 

 followed up, as an amusement, by the wealthy 

 members of the medical profession, it has been 

 long ago resigned into the hands of the pensioned 

 members of the French Institute, — to those, in 



