Shrewder than the centipede phrase, wherewithal philosophers invest it.
For that, the foolishness of pride, and flatteries of cringing homage,
Strew with chaff the threshing-floors of science; names perplex them all:
The entomologist, who hath pried upon an insect, straightway shall endow it with his name;
It had many qualities and marks of note,—but in chief, a vain observer:
The geographer shall journey to the pole, through biting frost and desolation,
And, for some simple patron's sake, shall name that land, the happy:
The fossilist hath found a bone, the rib of some huge lizard,
And forthwith standeth to it sponsor, to tack himself on reptile immortalities:
The sportsman, hunting at the Cape, found some strange-horned antelope,