Report on Zoology. 



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The disadvantages of this neglect of a most important 

 class of studies, are not simply to the individual but to 

 science and the world at large ; for in proportion as a know- 

 ledge and a love for nature is not inculcated in schools, 

 in that proportion is the world deprived of intelligent and 

 enthusiastic observers. On the other hand the advantages 

 which would necessarily result from sending the young 

 from school with some real and tangible subjects for 

 thoughts and observations are inestimable, and would 

 materially tend to the attainment of (in the language of 

 Bacon), " the knowledge of causes and secret motions of 

 things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire 

 to the effecting of all things possible." 



