228 EVOLUTION 



Yet, as we have seen, it is not enough to 

 be students even of Man and Nature; we must 

 also take our part in the world of action, if we 

 would understand the action of life. The 

 scientist has affirmed this intensely in his 

 insistence on field work, on museum work, 

 on laboratory work : but still too narrowly; 

 even with zoological stations and experi- 

 mental institutes thrown in. Here no pre- 

 paration can be too full, too varied in its 

 practicality. 



Explore our region here, and any other you 

 may have the good fortune to reach, fully, 

 thoroughly, repeatedly, from hill-top to sea- 

 bottom and back again. Realize your environ- 

 ment, your region through activity also : 

 and this not only as an excursion-field, a 

 playing-field, from ski to dive, it may be as 

 hunting-field in moderate measure, but as 

 work-field also, and above all. Go down into 

 mine and quarry; get some turn at hewing 

 coal, at dressing stone. The anvil, the joiner's 

 shop, the carver's or other studio are all ex- 

 cellent; already coming into use for afternoons 

 at any rate of school winters in town : in 

 summers be out in Nature; see and touch 

 Nature alive. Go out then with the herring- 

 fleet for one summer's holiday at least : 

 work in the fields a spring, a harvest, and tend 



