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size as though in some unexplained way their 

 proportions also were influenced by that same 

 range of distant hills. Thoreau says that " many 

 of our troubles are housebred." The tendency 

 to magnify petty difficulties, to consider one's 

 special problems impossible of solution, might be 

 conquered, I believe, nine times out of ten, could 

 we get out of doors and turn our attention to the 

 impersonal but absorbing problems ready to pre- 

 sent themselves to the open-eyed pedestrian. It 

 is not possible always to run away from the rou- 

 tine of every-day life, but it is possible often 

 when we fail to do it. The chances are that the 

 thing we are striving to accomplish is not half so 

 important or so inspiring as the thing that is 

 crowded out. We may not think it wise " to 

 postpone all to hear the locust sing," but I believe 

 we should find more stimulus in association with 

 our kind were we less weighted with the obliga- 

 tion to do an endless number of comparatively 

 unimportant things. 



One of the best botanists and ornithologists I 

 A scientist know is a New York business man whose hours 

 equities are l° n & an( * whose work is exacting. But dur- 

 ing his brief holidays and in the early morning 

 he has seen sights and come to conclusions which 

 have given him a high place in the estimation of 

 his fellow-botanists and ornithologists. Few of 



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