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rant, stand confessed before the exquisite beauty 

 which "animated sea water " can. produce ; whilst 

 the marvellous story of alternation of generations, 

 or metamorphoses, which we read from a careful 

 study of this group, leads us to exclaim with 

 Coleridge 



" And what if all of animated Nature 

 Be but organic harps, diversely framed, 

 That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, 

 Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, 

 At once the soul of each, and God of all !" 



