96 TEE -REV. J. G. WOOD. 



The italics are my father's own, inserted, in the 

 copy from which I quote, in the red ink which he 

 used so freely. Apparently this extract was intended 

 to serve as the foundation of an additional chapter, 

 for I find enclosed in the book a large sheet of care- 

 fully worked-out notes, in which a reference to the 

 " nephesh " of the Hebrew has a very prominent 

 place. 



" Man and Beast " was succeeded in the following 

 year 1876 by "Nature's Teachings," the leading 

 idea of which is the remarkable frequency with which 

 most striking anticipations of human inventions may 

 be found in the world of Nature. Man hits upon 

 what he considers a perfectly original notion, only 

 to find that Nature has been before him, and that 

 the prototype of his discovery has been existing for 

 countless ages in the world, ever ready to tell its 

 unmistakable story to those willing and able to 

 learn. And from this was drawn the corollary that, 

 in the words of the Preface, " as existing human 

 inventions have been anticipated by Nature, so it 

 will surely be found that in Nature lie the proto- 

 types of inventions not yet revealed to man. The 

 great discoverers of the future will, therefore, be 

 those who will look to Nature for art, science, or 

 mechanics, instead of taking pride in some new 

 invention, and then finding that it has existed in Nature 

 for countless centuries." 



The first part of the book is Nautical, and shows 

 how the sail, the rudder, the oar, the screw, the 



