The Culture Demanded by Modern Life Author:Edward Livingston Youmans Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lib PROFESSOR HENFREY ON THE STUDY OF BOTANY. might express my own feelings in the well-known words of the wise king: " It is the glory of God to conceal a th... more »ing, but the glory of a king to search it out." If any ask still, to what end ? I would quote to him the assurance of the great restorer of science—" Only let mankind regain their rights over nature, assigned to them by the gift of God; that power obtained, its exercise will be governed by right reason and true religion." ON THE METHOD OF STUDYING ZOOLOGY. A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE SCIENCE CLASSES AT THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. r THOMAS H. HUXLEY, F.RJi, LL.D. ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY. Natural History is the name familiarly applied to the study of the properties of such natural bodies as minerals, plants, and animals; the sciences which embody the knowledge man has acquired upon these subjects are commonly termed Natural Sciences, in contradistinction to other, so called " physical," sciences; and those who devote themselves especially to the pursuit of such sciences have been, and arc, commonly termed " Naturalists." Linnaeus was a naturalist in this wide sense, and his " Systema Naturae " was a work upon natural history, in the broadest acceptation of the term; in it, that great methodizing spirit embodied all that was known in his time of the distinctive characters of minerals, animals, and plants. But the enormous stimulus which Linnaeus gave to the investigation of nature soon rendered it impossible that any one man should write another " Systema Naturae," and extremely difficult for any one to become a naturalist such as Linnaeus was. Great as have been the advances made by all the three branches of science, of old included under the title of natural history, there can be no doubt that ...« less