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 GREEK BIOLOGY ANr MEDICINE ting to the best of our ability any member of the kingdom, however ignoble. For if some have no graces to charm the sense, yet even these, by disclosing to intellectual perception the artistic spirit that designed them, give im- mense pleasure to all who can trace links of causation, and are inclined to philosophy. . . . We therefore must not recoil with childish aversion from the examination of the humbler animals. Every realm of nature is marvellous ... so we should venture on the study of every , kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful. Absence of the haphazard and conduciveness of everything to an end are ' to be found in Nature's works in the highest degree, and the resultant end of her gen- erations and combinations is a form of the beautiful. " If any person thinks the examination of ; the rest of the animal kingdom an unworthy task, he must hold in like dis-esteem the study of man. For no one can look at the primordia of the human frame — blood, flesh, bones, vessels, and the like — without much repug- nance. Moreover, when any one of the parts  or structures, be it which it may, is under dis- ' [48]