Professor Ptthmllnsprts Versus Old Bones

The Water-Babies was a fairytale that straddled religion and science, railing against logical rationality in the face of nature’s mysteries. 

Illustration for Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies in charcoal, water, and oil.
Illustration for Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, c. 1916. Library of Congress.

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