THE SUMMIT OF THE YEARS 



meters," or that "sounds varying in pitch from those 

 of fifty to ten thousand vibrations a second affect 

 the frog." But what of it? Who is really the wiser 

 for this discovery? I know there is no reason why 

 I should quarrel with men who prefer to dine on the 

 concentrated equivalents of our meats and viands. 

 Rather should I wish them a good appetite for their 

 capsules. At the same time I can see no good reason 

 why I should not extol the pleasure and the profit 

 of taking our natural-history manna of field and 

 wood as Nature provides it for us, and with a relish 

 that only the open air can give. 



