New Walks in Old Ways 



possible attitude of mind: knowledge 

 of our real place in the whole big 

 scheme, yet not one in a million cares 

 or thinks enough about that to make 

 the least attempt to get his proper 

 bearings. Anyone who undertakes to 

 point it out will have few followers and 

 many critics. The inertia of the mass 

 is too well established. Thoreau laid 

 bare some of the hollowness and gruel- 

 ling requirements of our boasted civil- 

 ization, and found a half-dozen dis- 

 ciples. He who challenges man's es- 

 sential superiority, and rails at his 

 boasted morality, need look for little 

 sympathy from those about whom he 

 plainly speaks the truth. Personally 

 I know only a few who really care 

 enough about the rest of the world to 

 interest themselves in its study. 



There is something worth while to 

 be learned in every square yard of the 

 out-of-doors, whether you are among 

 the grain binders at their work, or 

 watching honey bees in the golden 



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