46 GLAUCUS; OR, 



each tiling not carnally, as the vulgar do, by its 

 size or its pleasantness to the senses, but spiritually, 

 by the amount of Divine thought revealed to him 

 therein ; holding every phenomenon worth the 

 noting down ; believing that every pebble holds a 

 treasure, every bud a revelation ; making it a point 

 of conscience to pass over nothing through laziness 

 or hastiness, lest the vision once offered and despised 

 should be withdrawn; and looking at every object 

 as if he were never to behold it again. 



Moreover, he must keep himself free from all 

 those perturbations of mind which not only weaken 

 energy, but darken and confuse the inductive 

 faculty; from haste and laziness, from melancholy, 

 testmess, pride, and all the passions which make 

 men see only what they wish to see. Of solemn 

 and scrupulous reverence for truth ; of the habit of 

 mind which regards each fact and discovery not as 

 our own possession, but as the possession of its 

 Creator, independent of us, our tastes, our needs, or 

 our vain-glory, I hardly need to speak ; for it is 

 the very essence of a naturalist's faculty — the very 



