Radiate Animals. 267 



Among the jelly-fishes, which are among the most 

 evanescent of all beings, there bursts upon us an- 

 other group of beautiful forms and colors. Nothing 

 can surpass the beauty of a Greenland harbor, on 

 -ummer-day, when the varied species of 

 jelly-fish are filling its waters. Their perfect forms 

 and delicate tints make them beautiful as gems, 

 though so soon to perish. While in the slow-grow- 

 ing Com] we h;r rk left to delight 

 us, the felly-fishes* Hke the annual flowers that beau- 

 tify the '/cry season, fill ti 3 with ever* 

 irring ri \ the lover of perfect forms and 

 brilliant tii ' 



It would take us too long to mention every br 

 and division of the animal kingdom. Nor is tl 



f doing so. Hut in th: the 



radiates, the element of beauty so completely runs 

 through it; beauty of outline and >culpture, and 

 richness and j i of coloring, both without 



am nee to the animals themseh 



that we are forced to accept it as a ] for the 



love of the. beautiful implanted in man. It gratifies 

 this element of our emotional nature. It is such a 

 provision for our gratification and enjoyment that we 

 accept it as the handiwork of a Being who compre- 

 hended our nature, and had the desire and the power 

 to gratify it. While He cared for the creatures them- 

 selves in adapting them to their place in the uni- 

 verse, He made them to subserve the higher forms 

 of life, and finally to minister to the highest possible 

 type, made in His own image. And it is not irre- 



