CHAPTER I 



OUTLOOK AND ENDEAVOUR 



No good work is ever lost. Max-Miiller. 

 There is no darkness but Ignorance. Shakespeare. 

 All wish to know, butfeiv the price will pay. Juvenal. 

 AH science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of 



Nature. R. W. Emerson. 

 Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks. Sermons 



in stones, and good in everything. Shakespeare. 



Nature alone is always true to herself ; she alone through 

 the ages never lies, never changes, never hesitates, ever 

 presses onwards. Eden Phillpotts. 



There are three voices of Nature. She joins hands with us 

 and says Struggle, Endeavour. She comes close to us, 

 we can hear her heart beating, she says Wonder, Enjoy, 

 Revere. She whispers secrets to us, we cannot always 

 catch her words, she says Search, Inquire. These, then, 

 are the three voices of Nature, appealing to Hand, and 

 Heart, and Head, to the Trinity of our Being. Prof. 

 J. Arthur Thomson. 



SINCE dawn the man had been seated on a stone at the 

 bottom of a ravine. Three peasant women on their 

 way to the vineyards exchanged " Good day " with him 

 as they passed to their work. At sunset when they 

 returned the watcher was still there, seated on the same 

 stone, his eyes fixed on the same spot. " A poor 

 innocent/' one whispered to the others, " pe'calre ! a 

 poor innocent," and all three made the sign of the cross. 



O.D. 



