A Chemist's Homage to the Work of a Biologist

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Henry E. Armstrong

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Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection . . . . . The temper by which right taste is formed is characteristically patient. I t dwells upon what is submitted to it. I t does not trample upon it--lest it should be pearls, even though it look like husks. I t is good ground, penetrable, retentive; it does not send up thorns of unkind thoughts, to choke the weak seed; it is hungry and thirsty too and drinks all the dew that fails on it. I t is an honest and good heart, that shows no too ready springing before the sun be up and fails not afterwards: it is distrustful of itself, so as to be ready to believe and to try all things and yet so trustful of itself, that it will neither quit what it has tried nor take anything without trying. And the pleasure which it has in things that it finds true and good is so great, that it cannot possibly be led aside by any tricks of fashion or diseases of vanity; it cannot be cramped in its conclusions by partialities and hypocrisies; its visions and its delights are too pene.trating--too living--for any white-washed object or shallow fountain long to endure or supply. I t chsps all that it loves so hard that it crushes it if it be hollow.

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