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menus many things that animals like man have 

 to omit. 



How tame the lowland earth must seem to souls 

 born in the sky. How the children of the peaks, 

 who are compelled to spend their lives on the 

 plains, must long for their native crags. It is 

 said that the king of Babylon built wonderful 

 hanging gardens and artificial highlands to keep 

 his Medean wife from becoming homesick for her 

 native mountains. 



How much of our heart-hunger is from the past! 

 It survives from a life left behind. We are but 

 images worked by wires stretching back thru 

 the centuries that are gone. We are each little 

 more than a series of spectres, one inside the 

 others. The love of children for swinging and 

 tree-climbing and robbing birds' nests, and the 

 general craving of mankind for the wilds, are sur- 

 vivals of the old, wild, tree-dwelling life which we 

 have so recently left. The cradle and the rock- 

 ing-chair are artificial tree-tops. Human beings 

 never w^ould have invented these things, because 

 they never would have had parts in their nature 

 calling for their invention, if our far ancestors had 

 not been tree-divellers. 



Can't you see what a wonderful key this idea of 

 survivals is, and how it makes plain so many 

 things that are not understood without it at all? 



11. The Ways of Chickens. 



The ancestor of the domestic chicken is the 



