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without song or music. 1 That is a matter for anxiety. 

 Insects, birds, quadrupeds, life and movement should be 

 a part of the landscape. This idea should continue to 

 attract more and more adherents. German thought and 

 feeling are altogether in unison on this subject, and it is 

 to be hoped that the cry for the protection of the beauties 

 of nature, for the preservation of the plant and animal 

 worlds, and all that is picturesque in our native landscape, 

 may continue to find expression. The League for the 

 Preservation of the Homeland in Germany gains daily 

 new supporters. 



Men like Professor Comventz and many others have 

 been working tor years in this direction, and carrying 

 on a most successful propaganda. This action for the 

 preservation of the Homeland, taken in the highest and 

 broadest sense ol the word, must tend to evoke and foster 

 the love of nature and its beauties in ever wider circles. 



In other countries, too, stead}' progress is being made 

 towards the same goal, and the importance of these 

 considerations has long been recognised. In England and 

 in America a way has recently been found to give practical 

 effect to the idea of the protection of the beauties of 

 nature by measures well calculated tor this end. In this 

 connection, too, a refined a-sthetic culture is gaining 

 ground. I do not at all close my eyes to the difficulty 

 of regulating the conditions bearing on this matter. But 

 in this connection we must not shrink from decisive 



1 In the market of Nice alone, according to official statistics, from 

 November i, iSSi, to the beginning of February 1882, 1,318.356 little 

 song-birds were put up for sale. 



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