measure all the out-of-doors by the linnet's song, 

 the cardinal-flower's flame, and the hay-field's 

 odor? Deeper, wider, more fundamental and 

 abiding than these standards, lie the intellectual 

 principles of plan and purpose and the intellec- 

 tual quality of perfect execution. We shall love 

 not alone with all our heart, but with all our 

 mind as well. If we judge the world beautiful 

 by the superficial standard of what happens to 

 please our eye, we shall see no more of the world 

 than we do of the new moon. Whole classes of 

 animals and wide regions of the earth's surface 

 must, by this test, be excluded. The only way 

 the batrachians could possibly come in would 

 be by rolling the frogs in bread-crumbs and fry- 

 ing them. Treated thus, they look good and 

 taste good, but this is all that can be said for the 

 entire family. Studied, however, from the single 

 view-point of protective coloring, or again, as 

 illustrating the ease with which the clumsiest 

 forms can be fitted to the widest variety of con- 

 ditions, the toads do not suffer by any compari- 

 son. In the light of such study, Bufo loses his 

 repulsiveness and comes to have a place quite as 

 unique as the duckbill's, and a personality not 

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