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inclosed within an ever-growing limestone castle, 

 to the architecture of which the Eddystone and 

 the Crystal Palace are bungUng heaps ; without 

 arms or legs, eyes or ears, and yet capable, in spite 

 of his perpetual imprisonment, of walking, feed- 

 ing, and breeding, doubt it not, merrily enough. 

 But this result has been attained at the expense 

 of a complication of structure, which has baffled 

 all human analysis and research into final causes. 

 As much concerning this most miraculous of 

 families as is needful to be known, and ten times 

 more than is comprehended, may be read in 

 Professor Harvey's Sea-Side Book, pp. 142-148, 

 — pages from which you will probably arise with 

 a dizzy sense of the infinity of nature, and a con- 

 viction that The Creative Word, so far fi'om hav- 

 ing commenced, as some fancy, with the simplest, 

 and, as it were, easiest forms of life, took delight, 

 as it were, in solving the most difficult and com- 

 plicated problems first of all, with a certain 

 divine prodigality of wisdom and of power ; and 

 that before the mountains were brought forth, or 

 ever the earth and the world was made, He was 

 God from everlasting, the same yesterday, to-day, 

 and for ever. Conceive a Crystal Palace, (for 

 mere difference in size, as both the naturalist 



