SENTIMENTAL VALUE OF BIRDS 



they visit his fields and pasture lands and snap up the 

 insects by stealth, retreating in wild alarm on sight of 

 their persecutor. Man's hand has ever been raised 

 against those of his own race who, seeing farther in 

 advance of the masses, seek to benefit them. Christ 

 sought to raise the people to a higher moral and 

 spiritual plane. His reward was death on the cross. 



The Greek philosopher, Socrates, taught the people 

 to think of higher things than the gratification of 

 the desires of the flesh only. He sowed the seeds of 

 wisdom, and his reward was death by poison. So it will 

 be until man directs his life by an educated intellect, 

 acting in combination with the moral and spiritual 

 organs of the brain. There is a subtle, uplifting, 

 spiritual influence in the study of birds and their 

 ways. 



Wandering into the fields weary and depressed, 

 the cheerful, bright, optimistic calls and cries of the 

 birds and their happy, joyous ways and beautiful 

 forms inspire one to renewed effort. 



What would the woods and fields be without birds ? 

 As barren and unattractive to the aesthetic senses as 

 the flowerless, weed-covered garden. Authors, artists, 

 and poets rave of the emotion-stirring songs and the 

 glorious gracefulness of birds, and the inspiration they 

 thus receive in their work. Can anything be more 

 elevating to the soul or more stirring to the higher 

 emotions than the song of a lovely bird singing to 

 his mate while she contentedly sits close on her eggs, 

 her entire being suffused with love for her companion 

 and solicitude for the welfare of her eggs ? The song 



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