Science in Arcady
Book Description
These essays deal for the most part with Science in A rcady. Tls my native coimtry: for I am not of those who praise the busy town. On the contrary, in the words of the great poet who has juat departed to join Milton and Shelley in a place of high co Uatetal glory ,I love to rail against it still, with a naturalists bitterness. For the town is always dead and lifeless. There are who admire it, the...
MoreThese essays deal for the most part with Science in A rcady. Tls my native coimtry: for I am not of those who praise the busy town. On the contrary, in the words of the great poet who has juat departed to join Milton and Shelley in a place of high co Uatetal glory ,I love to rail against it still, with a naturalists bitterness. For the town is always dead and lifeless. There are who admire it, they say poor purblind creatures because, forsooth, there is so much life there. So much life, indeed IN ograss in the streets; no flowers in the laneB; no beetles or butterflies on the dull stone pavements! Brick and mortar have killed out all life over square miles of Middlesex. For myself, I love better the denselypeopled fields than this boman desert, tills beflagged and macadamised man-made solitude. The country teems with life on every hand; a thousand different plants and Sowers in the spangled meadows; a thousand varied denizens of pond, and air, and heath, and copses.
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