GREEK BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 



ting to the best of our ability any member of 

 the kingdom, however ignoble. For if some 

 have no graces to charm the sense, yet even 

 these, by disclosing to intellectual perception 

 the artistic spirit that designed them, give im- 

 mense pleasure to all who can trace links of 

 causation, and are inclined to philosophy. . . . 

 We therefore must not recoil with childish 

 aversion from the examination of the humbler 

 animals. Every realm of nature is marvellous 

 ... so we should venture on the study of every 

 kind of animal without distaste; for each and 

 all will reveal to us something natural and 

 something beautiful. Absence of the haphazard 

 and conduciveness of everything to an end are 

 to be found in Nature's works in the highest 

 degree, and the resultant end of her gen- 

 erations and combinations is a form of the 

 beautiful. 



" If any person thinks the examination of 

 the rest of the animal kingdom an unworthy 

 task, he must hold in like dis-esteem the study 

 of man. For no one can look at the primordia 

 of the human frame — blood, flesh, bones, 

 vessels, and the like — without much repug- 

 nance. Moreover, when any one of the parts 

 or structures, be it which it may, is under dis- 

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