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and of growth respectively. The town in- 

 tellect is of course the swifter, the clearer, 

 more precise and definite, the more -assertive 

 and authoritative accordingly; hence its 

 characteristic contributions to knowledge and 

 to social progress, and the satisfaction with 

 which it proclaims these, and with which it 

 applies these, doubting nothing, to the educa- 

 tion of the rustic world, which undoubtedly 

 comes forward accordingly but into town. 

 That surviving slow, heavy-footed peasant, 

 behind his plough, or gazing over the fence 

 at his growing corn what blank stupidity ! 

 That shepherd striding back from the snow- 

 drift with the lamb within his plaid what 

 pretty sentiment ! That is what the mechani- 

 cals and money ers and paperists of cities see 

 in these silent servitors of Life. 



NEEDED RENEWAL OF RUSTIC POINT OF 

 VIEW. Suppose, however, that they one day 

 become articulate; that Pasteur is not the 

 last thinking peasant, but an initiative one, a 

 forerunner, already followed by the breeders, 

 cultivators, eugenists of previous pages. 

 With such contributions to the work of 

 experimental evolution will there not also be 

 forthcoming corresponding contributions to 

 its theory ? This will be neither in terms of 

 the mere mechano-morphism of the physicists 



