Youth—Our first recognition of Nature as something more than
ourselves—My modesty always in proportion to my ignorance—My
early habit of pumping those who knew more than myself—A
country town, a cemetery in which great men are buried
alive—Gideon Mantell, prince of geologists—Sir John Shelley
and Sir George Shiffner, the last of the pigtail wearers—They
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