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size or its pleasantness to the senses, but spiritually, by the amount of Divine 
thought revealed to him therein; holding every phenomenon worth 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vision, once offered and despised, should be withdrawn ; and looking at every 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, testiness, and pride, and all the passions which 
make men see only what they wish to see. Of solemn and unscrupulous 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, we hardly need to speak; for it is the very essence of 
a naturalist’s faculty, the very tenure of his existence; and without truthfulness, 
science would be as impossible now as chivalry would have been of old. 
u And last, but not least, the perfect naturalist should have in him the very 
essence of true chivalry—namely, self-devotion ; the desire to advance, not him¬ 
self and his own fame or wealth, but knowledge and mankind. He should have 
this great virtue, and in spite of many shortcomings (for what man is there who 
liveth and sinneth not?) naturalists, as a class, have it to a degree which makes 
them stand out most honourably in the midst of a self-seeking and mammonite 
generation, inclined to value everything by its money price, its private utility. The 
spirit which gives freely, because it knows that it has received freely ; which com¬ 
municates knowledge without hope of reward, without jealousy and mean rivalry, 
to fellow-students and to the world; which is content to delve and toil compara¬ 
tively unknown, that from its obscure and seemingly worthless results others may 
derive pleasure, and even build up great fortunes, and change the very face of cities 
and lands, by the practical use of some stray talisman which the poor student has 
invented in his laboratory : this is the spirit which is abroad among our scientific 
men, to a greater degree than it ever has been among any body of men, for many 
a century past; and it might well be copied by those who profess deeper purposes 
and a more exalted calling than the discovery of a new zoophyte, or the classifica¬ 
tion of a moorland crag. 
“ And it is these qualities, however imperfectly they may be realised in any 
individual instance, which make of scientific men, as a class, the wholesomest 
and pleasantest companions abroad, and at home the most blameless, simple, and 
cheerful in all domestic relations; men, for the most part, of manful heads, and 
yet of childlike hearts, who have turned to quiet study, in these late piping times 
of peace, an intellectual health and courage which might have made them, in more 
troublous times, capable of doing good service with very different instruments than 
the scalpel and the microscope. 
“I have been sketching an ideal, but one which I seriously recommend to the 
consideration of all parents; for, though it be impossible and absurd to wish that 
every young man should grow up a naturalist by profession, yet this age offers no 
more wholesome training, both moral and intellectual, than that which is given by 
instilling into the young an early taste for outdoor physical science.” 
The Natural History of the Tineina. Vol. I. Containing Nepticula, 
Part I.; Cemiostoma, Part I. By H. T. Stainton, assisted by Professor 
Zeller and J. W. Douglas. London : John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. 
Paris : Deyrolle, Rue de la Monnaie, 19. Berlin : E. S. Mittler und 
Sohn. Zimmerstrasse, 84-85. 1855. 
In a former number we had the pleasure of noticing at some length the 
third volume of “ Insecta Britannica, Lepidoptera Tineina,” by this able 
