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a means : it is not valued for a moment against 

 progress in this pursuit. 



Agassiz expressed the feeling of every true natu- 

 ralist, when he said "he could not spend his time 

 making money." Linnaeus not only roused his 

 mind and body to the work, so that weariness and 

 disease were almost forgotten, but his pupils were 

 fired with an enthusiasm which sent them round the 

 world, to gather for their teacher and themselves 

 new lines in this book of nature. 



There is one department, embracing the whole 

 range of Natural History, whose most brilliant 

 triumphs were reserved for our day, and where the 

 human mind has yet its grandest problems to solve 

 in the material world. Slowly from the mountain 

 and the valley did light break in upon the mind, 

 and the great truth become established, that in the 

 bosom of the earth, that volume of stony leaves, 

 there were strange inscriptions, the record of un- 

 numbered nations ; that her true history was writ- 

 ten there, and that in this apparent chaos there was 

 perfect order. 



The student of antiquities has no lexicon for read- 



