Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta
A Narrative of Exploration and Research in Connection With the Natural History, Geology, and Archæology of the Lower Nile and Maltese Islands
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I am well aware that such doctrines can have no advocates among the liberally educated portion of the profession or public generally; while, unquestionably, there are many who would take no exception to one's leisure hours being spent in idleness or in pursuit of pleasure.
To individuals given to this mode of computing the business excellence of others, I desire to apologize for having spent a certain portion of my leisure time in the cultivation of the natural sciences; at the same time reminding them of the memorable words of Cicero, when offering an excuse for having devot'd an occasional leisure hour to the study of elegant literature - words pertinent to these remarks, as they are hallowed to me from other associations than any referring to my own insignificant labours, - "Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, aut quia mihi jure succenseat, si, quantum ceteris ad suas res obeundas, quantum ad festos dies ludorum celebrandos, quantum ad alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem animi et corporis conceditur temporurm; quantum alii tribuunt tempestivis con-viviis; quantum denique alese, quantum pike; tantum mihi egoraet ad hæc studia recolenda sumsero."
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