42 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



advance, not himself and his own fame or 

 weaUh, but knowledge and mankind. He 

 should have this great virtue ; and in spite of 

 many short-comings, (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 honorably in the midst of a self-seeking 

 and mammonite generation, inclined to value 

 everything by its money price, its private utility. 

 The spirit which gives freely, because it knows 

 that it has received freely ; which communicates 

 knowledge without hope of reward, without jeal- 

 ousy and mean rivalry, to fellow-students and 

 to the world ; which is content to delve and toil 

 comparatively unknoAvn, that from its obscure 

 and seemingly worthless results others may de- 

 rive pleasure, and even build up great fortunes, 

 and change the very face of cities and lands, by 

 the practical use of some stray talisman which 

 the poor student has invented in his laboratory ; 

 — this is the spirit which is abroad among our 

 scientific men, to a greater degree than it ever 

 has been among any body of men, for many 

 a century past ; and might well be copied 

 by those who profess deeper purposes, and a 

 more exalted calling, than the discovery of a 



