48 NATURALHISTORY 



selection of one that demands accuracy, and secures 

 it more fully, than Natural History, as now studied. 

 Look at the Botanist, as he marks every hair, and 

 line, and cell, when with microscopic power he looks 

 into the secret laboratory of life, and traces the join- 

 ing of the tissues and the structure of the minutest 

 organ. And in this respect the Zoologist is wholly 

 his equal. He studies thousands of microscopic 

 forms the wavy line of the scale, and the cell of the 

 bone the cells, and lines, and tissues of the egg, 

 from the first crimson tinge of life, till every change 

 has been completed. The power and accuracy which 

 this gives are seen in the restored forms of vegetable 

 and animal life from the scattered fragments in the 

 rocks. This power and this habit, as a part of edu- 

 cation, appear in every vocation of life. 



Another requirement of a study is, that it shall 

 give broad views, and make men liberal towards 

 other pursuits. Accuracy is dearly bought if it nar- 

 rows the mind, so that it can see no good in any 

 thing beyond its own particular province. Natural 

 History calls into daily requisition almost all other 

 departments of human knowledge. It does this in 



