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Alder and Hancock's unrivalled Monograph on the Nudibranch MoUusca.
And now, worshipper of final causes and the mere useful in Nature, answer but one ques- tion, — ^Why this prodigal variety] All these Nudibranchs live in much the same way: why would not the same mould have done for them all?' And why, again, (for we must push the argument a little further,) why have not all the butterflies, at least all who feed on the same plant, the same markings? Of all imfathomable triumphs of design, (we ...can only express our- selves thus, for honest induction, as Paley so well teaches, allows us to ascribe such results only to the design of some personal will and mind,) what surpasses that by which the scales on a butterfly's wing are arranged to produce a certain pattern of artistic beauty beyond all painter's skill?
What a waste of power, on any utilitarian theory of nature ! And once more, why are those * Gosse's "Naturalist in Devon," p. 325.
THE WONDERS OP THB SHORE. 101 strange microscopio atomies, the Diatomacece and Infiuariay which fill every stagnant pool, which fringe every branch of sea-weed, which form banks hundreds of miles long on the Arctic sea-floor, and the strata of whole moorlands, which pervade in millions the mass of every iceberg, and float aloft in coimtless swarms amid the clouds of the volcanic dust, — ^why are their tiny shells of flint as fantastically various in their quaint mathe- matical symmetry, as they are countless beyond the wildest dreams of the Pantheist 1 Mystery inexplicable on all theories of evolution by neces- sary laws, as well as on the conceited notion which, making man forsooth the centre of the imiverse, dares to believe that variety of forms has existed for countless ages in abysmal sea- depths and untrodden forests, only that some few individuals of the western races might, in these latter days, at last discover and admire a comer here and there of the boundless realms of beauty.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Alder and Hancock's unrivalled Monograph on the Nudibranch MoUusca.
And now, worshipper of final causes and the mere useful in Nature, answer but one ques- tion, — ^Why this prodigal variety] All these Nudibranchs live in much the same way: why would not the same mould have done for them all?' And why, again, (for we must push the argument a little further,) why have not all the butterflies, at least all who feed on the same plant, the same markings? Of all imfathomable triumphs of design, (we ...can only express our- selves thus, for honest induction, as Paley so well teaches, allows us to ascribe such results only to the design of some personal will and mind,) what surpasses that by which the scales on a butterfly's wing are arranged to produce a certain pattern of artistic beauty beyond all painter's skill?
What a waste of power, on any utilitarian theory of nature ! And once more, why are those * Gosse's "Naturalist in Devon," p. 325.
THE WONDERS OP THB SHORE. 101 strange microscopio atomies, the Diatomacece and Infiuariay which fill every stagnant pool, which fringe every branch of sea-weed, which form banks hundreds of miles long on the Arctic sea-floor, and the strata of whole moorlands, which pervade in millions the mass of every iceberg, and float aloft in coimtless swarms amid the clouds of the volcanic dust, — ^why are their tiny shells of flint as fantastically various in their quaint mathe- matical symmetry, as they are countless beyond the wildest dreams of the Pantheist 1 Mystery inexplicable on all theories of evolution by neces- sary laws, as well as on the conceited notion which, making man forsooth the centre of the imiverse, dares to believe that variety of forms has existed for countless ages in abysmal sea- depths and untrodden forests, only that some few individuals of the western races might, in these latter days, at last discover and admire a comer here and there of the boundless realms of beauty.
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