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carefully studied the characteristics 

 and habits of wild animals, thus en- 

 abling" him, as the recent years show, 

 to write so interestingly. He has a 

 right to stir up all these facts of his 

 long years of watching", as he does the 

 papers on his floor — to kick away 

 those he rinds of no interest and pick 

 up only those for which he has good 

 use. 



Many of the facts of nature seem 

 useless because life is not long enough 

 to utilize them. Many of the facts of 

 literature do not benefit us because 



fer you to your own good teachers 

 whenever you doubt or hesitate to fol- 

 low his leading. He only ventures to 

 suggest timidly that all races and 

 tribes of men have almost uncon- 

 sciously chosen the twilight hour for 

 their time of worship, expressing 

 thereby the sad conviction that their 

 religion like all their knowledge, is 

 part light and part darkness. It is not 

 well, therefore, to grow dogmatic or to 

 be too sure about a thing so tender and 

 beautiful, yet so immeasurable, as the 

 twilight. 



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DR. LONG'S OUTDOOR BEDROOM ON SECOND STORY OF "WORKADAY." 

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they lack human interest. Even the 

 dogmas of religion may lack in benefit 

 because not inspiring; even doubt 

 therein, if not annihilated, may be 

 turned to inspiration. Listen to what 

 the Reverend Doctor says of dogmas 

 and doubts in his charming allegory, 

 "The Question of a Rabbit's Re- 



ligion 



"Our next step into the unknown 

 brings us to the beginnings of that hu- 

 man religion of which we are both 

 thinking", and here the Rabbit must re- 



And again, after Mr. MacGreggor's 

 reference to Adam, he says: "Now 

 the trouble with Adam was that he 

 never was a boy, and so missed the 

 most interesting part of his life, to say 

 nothing of the knowledge and experi- 

 ence which only a boy can accumulate. 

 That is precisely the trouble with Mr. 

 AlacGreggor's idea of religion, and 

 indeed with most of your established 

 religions standards. You forget that 

 religion had a boyhood ; that instead 

 of being rational and theological, and 



