thoughts which the contemplation of these wonderful bits of creation 

 has suggested to your minds. 



" In a new sense, has the great world become to you a storehouse of 

 animate forms. Very many species of life have been revealed to you, 

 with all their complex being, their wonderful adaptation to their environ- 

 ment, their endless and astonishing variety, and the marvelous stories 

 of their life histories. 



"You seem almost to have visited the 'secret places of the Most 

 High,' and to have wrested the hidden things from their hiding-places. 

 Never again can the earth appear to you commonplace and unattractive. 

 Rather you will long for ages to penetrate farther into the mysteries of 

 created things, of which as yet you seem only to have looked through an 

 open door to the wealth of knowledge beyond. 



"Allow me, as my parting word, to recall to your minds the guiding 

 sentiment of the club, so wisely chosen : 



" ' The more tilings thou learnest to know and to 

 enjoy, the more complete and full will be for thee the 

 delight of living.' ' 



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