94 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



man has defiled by sin, which would at moments 

 crush the naturalist's heart, and make his brain 

 swim with terror, were it not that he can see by 

 faith, through all the abysses and the ages, not 

 merely 



" Jlancls, 

 From out the darkness, shaping man " ; 



but 'above them a living, loving countenance, 

 human and yet divine ; and can hear a voice 

 which said at first, " Let us make man in our 

 image " ; and hath said since then, and says £ot 

 ever and for ever, " Lo, I am with you always, 

 even to the end of the world." 



But now, friend, who listenest, perhaps in- 

 structed, and at least amused, if, as Professor 

 Harvey well says, the simpler animals represent, 

 as in a glass, the scattered organs of the higher 

 races, which of your organs is represented by 

 that " sca'd man's head," which the Devon chil- 

 dren more gracefully, yet with less adherence to 

 plain likeness, call " mermaid's head," * which 

 we picked up just now on Paignton Sands ? Or 

 which, again, by its more beautiful little con- 

 gencr,t five or six of which are adhering tightly 

 to the slab before us, a ball covered with delicate 

 * Ampliidoius cordatus. t Echinus miliaris. 



