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The Stiidy of Animal Life 



the three as essential, and to cease from drawing prejudiced com- 

 parisons between them. 



Their relations may be summarised as follows : 



To those interested in "Natural History," there is little need 

 to give the primary word of counsel "OBSERVE," for to do so is 

 their delight ; nor do they need to be told that sympathetic feeling 

 with animals, delight in their harmonious beauty, and poetical 

 justice of insight which recognises their personality, are qualities 

 of a true naturalist, as every one will allow, except those who are 

 given up to the idolatry of that fiction called " pure science." 



There is a maniacal covetousness of knowledge which one has 

 no pleasure in encouraging. We do not want to know all that is 

 contained even in Chambers's Encyclopaedia , though we wish to 

 gain the power of understanding, realising, and enjoying the 

 various aspects of the world around us. We do not wish brains 

 laden with chemistry and physics, astronomy and geology, botany 



