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jioetic, these lines may well apply ; who find even such happiness 

 in wandering with more or less purpose, sometimes aimlessly 

 perhaps, amid the cultivated domain of intellect, gathering the 

 blooms reared by the husbandmen of the garden, or plucking at 

 will fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. 



What then is the place of such in the economy of the 

 Realm of Mind ? 



Are they merely drones who take their share of the honey 

 without contributing to the store? 



Not entirely ; for apart from the fact that they take their 

 portion without impoverishing the workers, their position is not 

 altogether a selfish one. For whilst it is the golden rule that 

 the first duty of man as regards his fellow is to endeavour to 

 contribute to his happiness and welfare, there is also a duty of 

 happiness towards oneself, a cultivation of those faculties for 

 enjoyment which all more or less possess, and which as they 

 are developed in the individual go to swell the great volume of 

 happiness in the community. 



It will not be necessary here to argue in this connection, 

 the direction in which the highest and noblest pleasure is to be 

 sought, and the purest enjoyment to be obtained. No need to 

 attempt to prove that they are attained to the fullest extent in 

 the appreciation through the intellect, of beauty, order, perfec- 

 tion, obedience to law. 



It is these qualities which it is the province of Natural 

 Science to reveal ; and as they are revealed, and the degree to 

 which they are unfolded and appropriated, to that extent are 

 gained some of the most valuable of intellectual advantages, — 

 an inductive habit of thinking, a capacity for judging fairly of 

 facts without which the world is without form and void ; nay 

 more, they produce a refinement and elevation of mind which it 

 is impossible can remain a mere selfish acquisition. 



Of the cultivation of the intelligence in such directions a 

 sentence from the Duke of Argyle well applies: — "It is in 

 seeing the resemblances, and in seeing the correlative differences 

 of things, that all knowledge consists. This perception is the 

 raw material of thought — it is the foundation of all intellectual 

 apprehension." 



So the man of science by patient search and with unre- 

 mitting toil extracts from the innermost recesses of the treasure- 

 house of Nature a wealth of knowledge which he at once places 

 at the disposal of all who will take it, — to the extent that they 

 can take it, — to their own enrichment. 



The ancient sage depicts, in one of the loftiest passages of 

 oriental imagery, a sublime impersonation standing and crying 

 aloud, inviting the uninstructed to share her bounty : — 



" Doth not Wisdom cry, 

 And understanding put forth her voice 1 



