semitransparency

Updated: May 7, 2025

The hazy semitransparency of the embryonic tissues, the halos, the granules, the globules, the cell-walls, the delicate membranous expansions, the vascular webs, are expressed with purity, softness, freedom, and a conscientiousness which reminds us of Donne's microscopic daguerreotypes, while in many points the views are literally truer to nature, just as a sculptor's bust of a living person is often more really like him in character than a cast moulded on his features.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858