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points which we are seeking will be essen- 

 tially these two, will be characterized by 

 familiarity with the processes of mechanism 

 and of growth respectively. The town in- 

 tellect is of course the swifter, the clearer, 

 more precise and definite, the more assertive 

 and authoritative accordingly; hence its 

 characteristic contributions to knowledge 

 and to social progress, and the satisfaction 

 with which it proclaims these, and with 

 which it applies these, doubting nothing, to 

 the education of the rustic world, which un- 

 doubtedly comes forward accordingly but 

 into town. That surviving slow, heavy- 

 footed peasant, behind his plough, or gazing 

 over the fence at his growing corn what 

 blank stupidity! That shepherd striding 

 back from the snow-drift with the lamb 

 within his plaid what pretty sentiment! 

 That is what the mechanicals and moneyers 

 and paperists of cities see in these silent 

 servitors of Life. 



NEEDED RENEWAL OF RUSTIC POINT OF 

 VIEW. Suppose, however, that they one 

 day become articulate; that Pasteur is not 

 the last thinking peasant, but an initiative 

 one, a forerunner, already followed by the 

 breeders, cultivators, eugenists of previous 

 pages. With such contributions to the 

 work of experimental evolution will there 



