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““ Nature is a mine of pleasure,—new, boundless, and inerhaustible.”’ 
“The naturalist sees fe where other men see naught: the woods, the 
mountain’s side, the opening glades, the shadowy burns,—where dwell the new- 
born butterfly, the gnat, the speckled, moth, and the smallest fly; all to him are 
so many peopled worlds, with customs, habits, and language, of which he alone 
has the master key.’’ 
‘“ When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage. looks at a ship, 
as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every produc- 
tion of nature as one which has had a long history; when we contemplate every 
complex structure and instinct as the summing wp of many contrivances, each 
useful to the possessor, in the same way as any great mechanical invention is 
the summing wp of the labour, the experience, the reason and even the blunders 
of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more 
interesting—I speak from experience—does the study of natural history 
become.’’ 
CHARLES DARWIN, 
In the “‘Origin of Species.”’ 


