AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



observation and realization of the possi 

 bilities and actualities of human life that 

 make it, even to the biologist, the vivid, 

 many-colored, suggestive, thrilling thing 

 it is, the thing so full of occasionally 

 realized great moments and of glimpses 

 of infinitely great possibilities that some 

 times it seems all mystery, all something 

 more than of this world, and hence all 

 something quite hopeless to study by the 

 methods of his science, or even quite 

 hopeless profitably even to wonder about. 

 Why not take it and make the most of it? 

 And then comes the insistent question: 

 Ah, how make the most of it? And he 

 becomes again the patient struggling 

 student of biology, that is the laws or 

 conditions of life. 



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