New Walks in Old Ways 



man. The requirements for gradua- 

 tion are so great that they are beyond 

 human attainment. They "pluck" a 

 lot of men at West Point and Annap- 

 olis, but a chosen few get through. 

 Not so in this school of Nature. We 

 can matriculate and spend a little time 

 in laboratories, on the by-ways or in 

 the fields, grasp feebly a few big, 

 general propositions perhaps, and fall 

 back beaten, to give place to the next 

 wayfarer in a world of beauty inde- 

 scribable and mystery unfathomable; 

 a world in which even the "weeds" we 

 do not fully understand have their 

 designated places, their own wondrous 

 processes, their own lives to live, quite 

 as important to themselves as if we 

 knew their functions, and recognized 

 their allotted part. 



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