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and then if you have no coral of your own to examine, 
go to the British Museum * and see the beautiful spe- 
cimens in the glass cases there, and think that they 
Fig. 3- 
Coral island in the Pacific. 
have been built up under the rolling surf by the tiny 
jelly animals ; and then coral will become a real living 
thing to you, and you will love the thoughts it awakens. 
But people often ask, what is the use of learning 
all this ? If you do not feel by this time how delight- 
ful it is to fill your mind with beautiful pictures of 
nature, perhaps it would be useless to say more. But 
in this age of ours, when restlessness and love of ex- 
citement pervade so many lives, is it nothing to be 
taken out of ourselves and made to look at the 
* These specimens are eventually going to South Kensington. 
