EDITORIAL AND GENERAL 



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LOOKING NORTH. 



no further travelling". Other views from 

 the same center, if we had space to 

 spare, would furnish an unlimited num- 

 ber of aspects — all of great interest and 

 attractiveness. I wish I could photo- 

 graph the region from at least eight 

 points of view and focus all their beauty 

 into one and make a sort of concentrated 

 intensified, composite photograph. But 

 perhaps that would be too much. Its 

 beauty would be too great to be endured. 



And yet the scene itself is equalled by 

 many others, and as much variation may 

 be found here at different times a- in 

 other similar places. And then to think 

 that all these different localities have 

 their different points of view in unending 

 time in never repeating phases. But 

 stop ; the geometrical progression is too 

 great. One's lifetime is not long enough. 



We naturalists should feel guilty 

 Sometimes I do. We have accumulated 



more wealth than we merit. We would 

 gladly distribute to others, if others were 

 prepared to make good use of it. It 

 would even be enough if others could be 

 induced to realize that they have the 

 wealth, and that it is a present. 



But to return from the soliloquy for a 

 moment. Sometime I shall photograph 

 a "wheel" of beauty — perhaps one bank 

 of the brook, perhaps the frog pond or 

 the knoll, as a record of my journey 

 through the changing scenes of the year, 

 perhaps of two, or even three years. — 

 there is no stopping. 



Wouldn't you also like to go with the 

 "compass wheel" in its wandering down 

 the path of time? 



You may. There is enough of this 

 wealth, thanks to a generous nature, to 

 "go around" and to give all a super- 

 fluity. 



