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to renewed efforts. The harvest of the land is limited as is 
the area of land, but we never think of saying to the suc- 
' cessful farmer, ‘‘ You must not farm more than a certain 
"amount of land, nor use more than a certain power of 
machinery because you will get more eee your share of 
| the harvest,”’ but in fishery matters our legislation during the 
“last fifteen years 1s, as [have said, like nothing else in English 
law. The Law of Nature, that every variety whether of 
| man, beast, bird, or fish has a constant tendency to revert 
7 to an original type receives froni this a valuable illustration. 
| It is well known that sons of savage chieftains who have re- 
ceived in Europe a civilised education often on returning to 
their wild homes revert very much towards the ancient 
| practices of their tribes. A savage everywhere is delighted 
to clothe himself in the garb of civilisation, but he remains 
a savage underneath. And so we find that a high scientific 
education is after all only skin deep. Beneath all is the 
savage or the medieval mind, which only needs opportunity 
‘to break forth and astonish civilisation by acting on the 
worst lines of mediaeval thought. This may be to some 
extent explicable, as it is a well- known fact, proverbially SO, 
_that very high scientific knowledge and the absorption ‘of 
the mind in pursuit of ‘such ‘studies, whether mathematics, 
| theology, natural science, or any other branch, often with- 
draws a than from the work-a- day world, so that he becomes 
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unpractical. 
