St. Mark's Rest : the History of Venice Written for the Help of the Few Travellers Who Still Care for Her Monuments volume 1
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63. And yet be assured, as it cannot have been all these creatures, so it has never, in truth, been any of them. The transformations believed in by the mythologists are at least spiritually true ; you cannot too carefully trace or too accu- rately consider them. But the transformations believed in by the anatomist ai'e as yet proved true in no single instance, TUE SWALLOW. 39 and in no substance, spiritual or material ; and I cannot too often, or too earnestly, ui'ge you not to waste your time ...in guessing what animals may once have been, while you remain in nearly total ignorance of what they are. 64. Do you even know distinctly from each other, — (for that is the real naturalist's business ; instead of confounding them with each other), — do you know distinctly the five great species of this familiar bird ? — the swallow, the house-martin, the sand-martin, the swift, and the Alpine swift? — or can you so much as answer the first question which would suggest it- self to any careful observer of the form of its most familiar species, — yet which I do not find proposed, fai* less answered, in any scientific book, — namely, why a swallow has a swallow- tail?
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