Henry Kett Quotes

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It is the object of the naturalist to examine all the visible works of the creation; he is therefore employed in the most extensive province of human knowledge, as nature appears to have fixed no bounds to her productions.

Henry Kett
The study of the works of nature is in itself capable of affording the most refined pleasure, and the most edifying instruction. All the objects with which we are surrounded, the smallest as well as the greatest, teach us some useful lesson. All of them speak a language directed to man, and to man alone.

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The terranueous globe presents a most glorious and most sublime prospect, equally worthy of the capacity of man to contemplate, and beautiful to his eye to behold.

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The botanist follows nature into her most retired abodes, and views her in her simple taste, and native majesty.

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It is the glorious privilege of man, while other animals are confined within the limits which instinct has prescribed, to carry his observations beyond his own immediate wants, and to contemplate the universe at large.

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That which is first to nature in the order of creation, is not first to man in the order of philosophical inquiries; or, in other words, the progress of the Creator is different from that of the creature.

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The treasures of nature... are so rich and inexhaustible, that they may furnish employment for his greatest diligence, stimulated by the most ardent curiosity, and assisted by the most favourable opportunities.

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Objects that are open to daily observation lose their effect upon our minds; but such as are rare and uncommon seldom fail to strike us with admiration.

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At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to explore her secret recesses, she - fails not to reward him with the purest gratifications of the mind, because at every step he takes, new instances of beauty, variety, and perfection are unfolded to his view.

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