Excerpt from Science in Arcady

These essays deal for the most part with Science in Arcady. "Tis my native country: for I am not of those who "praise the busy town." On the contrary, in the words of the great poet who has just departed to join Milton and Shelley in a place of high collateral glory, I "love to rail against it still," with a naturalist"s 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! No grass in the streets; no flowers in the lanes; 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 densely-peopled fields than this human desert, this beflagged and macadamised man-made solitude. The country teems with life on every hand; a thousand different plants and flowers in the spangled meadows; a thousand varied denizens of pond, and air, and heath, and copses.

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