CHAPTER XXI 



THE UNKNOWN PATHWAY 



The poetry of the Book of Job is not only 

 something that takes you back to the infancy of 

 Time, but with its minute insight, into the troubled 

 heart of universal man; it has in it a surge and 

 music touching the sublime. The great story 

 teller with a great epic to relate, stops to gather 

 flowers and comment on facts, minute facts of 

 natural history, and later on incorporates the 

 flower and the fact into the epic, which would not 

 have been so great without them. Listen to this 

 brief statement of natural history and open your 

 ear to the wonder and the strangeness that is 

 opened up by it: "There is a path that no fowl 

 knoweth and which the Vulture's eye hath not 

 seen." The human Air-man in France did not 

 miss many paths, looking from the sky what won- 

 derful opportunities for observation; to say that 

 he missed one would seem to demand explana- 

 tion. Looking down from above, through all the 

 ages the birds have been watching and acquainting 

 themselves with the paths made by terrestrial crea- 



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