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higher feeling than this, we are afraid that, instead 

 of doing good, it will only intensify the harm 

 which mankind are so fond of appropriating out of 

 the most innocent of objects. But we are referring 

 to the sentiments of a man who feels that all things 

 have a right to live by the mere fact of their 

 being in existence who loves them, not only for the 

 pure joy they give him in sharing their vitality, but 

 because they are, with himself, objects of the same 

 providential care. With such feelings " collecting " 

 is a secondary matter only resorted to that we may 

 know and admire more of the objects themselves. 

 Coleridge has exactly expressed the sentiment of 

 all genuine naturalists 



" He prayeth most who loveth most 



All things, both great and small ; 

 For the dear God who loveth us, 

 He made and loveth all." 



We have never -collected a flowering plant, insect, 

 or egg, without feeling that if there were any other 

 way of getting at the knowledge we seek, we should 

 greatly prefer it. Life, however or wherever re- 

 presented, is a sacred thing to the naturalist. The 

 ' Loves of the Plants ' are felt by him in a different 

 way to that of which Dr. Darwin wrote. He knows 

 that if a human mechanic could fabricate a small 

 machine that should be able to fly, like the little 

 gnat that has just settled on his hand, such a man 

 would be lauded throughout the length and breadth 

 of the laud. Much more if he could place within it an 



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