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nation to conserve both. The poor narrow-mind- 

 ed lumberman, who sees in a tree only possible 

 lumber must be made to dip into the future and 

 conserve a natural resource for his children and 

 his children's children, protecting and renewing 

 rather than destroying. God save the world from 

 the greed of ignorant little men. 



Arrogance and ignorance shroud the morning 

 and the evening of existence of the dyed-in-the- 

 wool money grubber, who would sell his Lord for 

 fifteen pieces of silver if he could not get thirty. 

 To them, outside of a sordid commercialism, there 

 is nothing; and were beauty and song exposed on 

 the block, among them all there would not be 

 found a single bidder. People who know all can't 

 be told a single thing. 



That we are the people and wisdom will die 

 with us, is probably the conviction of most races 

 of human beings. Any idea of kinship with other 

 forms of life is not to be tolerated; we are the 

 proud possessors of a god-like reason, the brute 

 creation of a blind instinct far removed from 

 man's lofty endowment. Such a belief makes 

 easier the universally accepted notion of a divinely 

 given dominion over the beasts of the fields and 

 the fowls of the air and all that passeth through 

 the depths of the sea. Careful investigation goes 

 to show that there is not such a mighty chasm 

 between reason and instinct as has been commonly 



