XIII 



The Call of the Unknown 



WHAT is the fascination of a dis- 

 tant prospect? And then, after 

 you have traversed the space that lies 

 in between, what is the still more com- 

 pelling call of the old haunts? Any 

 number of young folk on the farm will 

 eagerly answer the first of these ques- 

 tions and with perfect assurance. 

 And, if you will then wait for about 

 forty years, you might put again the 

 second of these queries. 



Man is the only animal that fails to 

 "stay put" where he was born and 

 bred. Eden is, of course, the spot of 

 your nativity, but we all hear and 

 hearken to the call of the eternal snake, 

 and set out on our wanderings through 

 the wilderness. The so-called inferior 



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