Excerpt from The Aquarium, Vol. 4: April, 1897 When, however, the language of Nature is learned, and her voice is no longer a confused murmur to the car, but becomes a brilliant series of elo quent words, full of deep and exquisite meaning, then the student will see as well as near but till then, in his inter course with nature, he is both deaf and blind. Speak, said Socrates to a youth; say something, that I may see you. Socrates saw not a silent man and those Who do not hear and under stand Nature's language cannot see her wondrous beauty. The aquarium has been at all times and in all ages a source of information and amusement for the cultured and rich. Already, thousands of years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.