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emy who established the belief that 

 held for fourteen or more centuries 

 that the earth was the center of every- 

 thing. Your likes or my dislikes are 

 not the center of everything. Life is 

 one great, wide, intricate fabric. We 

 come into intimate relations with other 

 people, and i. : we would do them good 

 we must learn to look at things from 

 their point of view; therefore I main- 

 tain that rats! rats! rats! rats! rats! 

 or even snakes ! snakes ! snakes ! 

 snakes ! snakes ! and bugs ! bugs ! bugs ! 

 bugs ! bugs ! shall be used for the ben- 

 efit of those who do like them and are 

 influenced by them, regardless of the 

 fact of my liking or of my repugnance. 



I once knew a boy whose whole 

 interest in nature was aroused through 

 his introduction to a snake. The 

 wise teacher let him play with the 

 snake to his heart's content although 

 he disliked snakes. He did not dis- 

 like the boy. 



Nature knows better than to produce 

 two things alike ; when she produced 



you and me she said practically I 

 repent of the job and will never again 

 produce another like either of those. 

 And yet, you and I persist in inflicting 

 upon others our likes and dislikes as 

 if we were the potentates of the uni- 

 verse. 



Dr. David Starr Jordan at Arcadia. 



President David Starr Jordan of The 

 Leland Stanford Junior University, Cali- 

 fornia, was a guest at Arcadia in July. 

 Notwithstanding the multiplicity of his 

 cares as the President of one of the 

 greatest universities of the west, as the 

 President of The American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, as a 

 prominent participator in the Interna- 

 tional School of Peace and in many 

 other important offices, he is always 

 ready to answer in detail a simple ques- 

 tion from a child. For many years he 

 has assisted the writer in the "Because 

 We Want to Know" department of "St. 

 Nicholas" magazine, and in answering 

 the many questions that come to The 



DR. JORDAN AND THE ARCADIANS. 



