LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



does not get a sympathetic hearing, one of two things 

 happens — he loses the thread of his thought and grows 

 apathetic, or he arouses an opposition that snuffs out 

 his life. 



And the dead they soon grow cold. 



The recipe for popularity is to hunt out a weakness of 

 humanity and then bank on it. No one knows this bet- 

 ter than your theological volunteer. 

 Aristotle, the father of natural history, who early in 

 life had a Pegasus killed under him, taught that the 

 diversity in animal life was caused by a diversity of 

 conditions and environment, and he declared he could 

 change the nature of animals by changing their sur- 

 roundings. This being true he argued that all animals 

 were once different from what they are now, and that 

 if we could live long enough, we would see that species 

 are exceeding variable. 



To explain to child-minds that a Supreme Being made 

 things outright just as they are is easy, but to study 

 and in degree know how things evolved, requires infi- 

 nite patience and great labor. It also means small sym- 

 pathy from the indifferent whom the earth has spawned 

 in swarms, and the hatred of the volunteers who ride 

 in coaches, and tell the many what they wish to hear. 

 QThe volunteers drove Aristotle into exile, and from 

 his time they had their way for two thousand years, 

 when John Ray, Linnaeus and Buffon appeared. 

 In 1755, Immanuel Kant, the little man who stayed 

 near home and watched the stars tumble into his net, 

 put forth his theory that every animal organism in the 

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