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The Book of Reptiles: Class Reptilia; With Some Account of the Fossil Remains of Animals Whose Species Have Become Extinct (Classic Reprint)
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Paperback. Forgotten Books 2015-09-27.
ISBN 9781330245385
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Excerpt from The Book of Reptiles: Class Reptilia; With Some Account of the Fossil Remains of Animals Whose Species Have Become Extinct
Most of the animals which will be described in this little book have been regarded, by the majority of mankind, with terror or disgust. They have been dreaded (in many cases) for their supposed malignity, despised for their dulness, or hated for their deformity. In the mythology of nations unblest with the light, of Christianity, they have usually been the emblems of the terrific and revolting. At times, indeed, they were the subjects of a kind of worship; but the feelings by which their adorers were moved, were those of fear, not love. The poets have contributed their aid to perpetuate and extend these impressions; discord, envy, and almost every other evil passion, having been symbolized by these proscribed beings, until, at length, the name of reptile itself passed into a proverb for all that was base and contemptible. Notwithstanding all this, there are few animals more worthy of the attention of a reflecting mind, than the Reptiles. Indeed, what worse than presumption is it not, to stigmatize any of the works of God as revolting, or beneath the attention of man? His divine power is as much manifested in these objects of fastidious animadversion, as in the races which he has decked with greater beauty, or destined more directly to minister to our necessities.
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