CHAPTEE IV 



PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE 



Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps. Macaulay. 

 Prove all tilings ; hold fast that which is good. St. Paul. 

 We ourselves die, but the fair fame never dies of him who 



has earned it. A Lay of Odin. 

 Knowledge is proud that he has learnt so much ; Wisdom 



is humble that he knows no more. Cowper. 

 When you call a thing mysterious, all that it means is that 



you don't understand it. Lord Kelvin. 

 Where a spring rises, or a river flows, there should we 



build altars and offer sacrifices. Seneca. 



Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands ; 

 and there is no knowledge that 'is not Power. Do 

 valiantly, and hope confidently and wait patiently. 

 Jeremy Taylor. 



4 TAKE this fish," said Agassiz to a student who entered 

 his laboratory to study zoology, " and look at it ; we 

 call it a Haemulon ; by and by I will ask what you 

 have seen." In ten minutes the student thought he 

 had seen all that could be seen in the creature without 

 a magnifying glass, but when he commenced to draw it 

 he discovered new features, and upon the return of 

 Agassiz several hours later he rehearsed what he had 

 observed. ' You have not looked very carefully " was 

 the remark of the naturalist, " why, you haven't even 

 seen one of the most conspicuous features of the animal, 



