"There is scarcely any well-informed person who, if he has but
the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the
general stock of knowledge, if he will only observe regularly and
methodically some particular class of facts which may most excite
his attention, or which his situation may best enable him to study
with effect."
Sir John Herschell, "Study of Natural Philosophy."
"All the Natural Sciences are particularly valuable, not only as
supplying the mind with the most rich, various, and beautiful
furniture, but as teaching people that most useful of all arts, how
to use their eyes."
Prof. J. S. Blackie, "Self Culture."
"Happy, truly, is the Naturalist. He has no time for melan-
choly dreams. The earth becomes to him transparent; everywhere
he sees significances, harmonies, laws, chains of cause and effect
endlessly interlinked, which draw him out of the narrow sphere of
self-interest and self-pleasing, into a pure and wholesome region
of solemn joy and wonder."
Rev. C. Kingsley, "Glaucus."
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