48 HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 



And from Bradford Torrey : 



" I hope I am not lacking in a wholesome dis- 

 respect for sentimentality and affectation ; for 

 artificial ecstasies over sunsets and landscapes, 

 birds, and flowers ; the fashionable cant of nature 

 worship, which is enough to seal a true worship- 

 er's lips under a vow of everlasting silence. But 

 such repugnances belong to the library and the 

 parlor, and are left behind when a man goes 

 abroad, either by himself or in any other really 

 good company. For my own part the first lisp 

 of a chickadee out of a wayside thicket disperses 

 with a breath all such unhappy and unhallowed 

 recollections. Here is a voice sincere and the 

 response is instantaneous and irresistible." 



