The National Magazine New Series. January 1898

But after all old age tells on the infusoria: they cease to amalgamate or fuse in the Stylonl.niar that happens between the 15o and Moth generation : bit the " germen " the vital principle of the race does not extinguish in the natural order of things : 012 individual in time disappears but the race is kept alive by the fusion process -f the infusoria by the perpetualism of the cell containing t [...] Smugling for which the coast was famous has since the establishment of the coastguard whose station is situated on the top of the cliff retired to more solitary corners Off Beachy Head was fought on the 3oth June 169o the great battle between the combined fleets of the Dutch and the English under Arthur Earl of Torington and the French under Comte de Tourville. [...] The medieval castle takes the form of an addition to the defences of the mound shutting it off as a citadel from the rest of the works. [...] Both no doubt descended from the same parent stock but the difference of associations and habits and the influmice of climate had wrought such a considerable change in their tastes tendencies and thoughts that the speculations of the one are but the contrasts of the other. [...] Who does not know that the good Risks of old sat down night after night and patiently watched the motions of the flickering stars only to catch the opportune moment to offer a sacrifice and the invention of the science of Astronomy was its grand result ? The same religious bent of mind lent the incentive to the invention of geometry to erect their altars in rigid _conformity to the dictates of r