Excerpt from The Rambles of a Naturalist on the Coasts of France, Spain, and Sicily, Vol. 1 of 2 I have thought that the best means of bringing the educated classes to adopt more correct ideas was to leave zoology to defend itself by showing the great truths which it has discovered and the nume rous facts which it comprises, and by indicating the problems of general physiology which it has solved and the profound questions of natural philosophy which no other science can so well enter upon. By this course I hoped to bring over to the ranks of its defenders a band of intellectual supporters, and I think I may venture to assert that experience has shown that my hopes were not unfounded. 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.