FIELD AND STUDY 



was the first animal to see things as they are apart 

 from himself. We see this in his first rude drawing? 

 while he was yet a cave-dweller, and in the orna- 

 mentation of his weapons and tools. He was the 

 first and only animal to see wholes, as well as parts, 

 to see the landscape, the sky, the stars. He looked 

 out and up. Your dog heeds the rain and the snow, 

 but he does not heed the gathering clouds; he sees 

 the fox or the rabbit, but not the prospect their 

 course opens up to him; he profits by experience, 

 but he does not accumulate a store of knowledge. 



When man first developed wonder, awe, rever- 

 ence, superstition, he had got well launched upon 

 his career. 



How the darkness deepens as we go back into 

 prehistoric times. Man's rude stone implements 

 shed the last ray of light. When we get back into 

 geologic time all is black night save as the strata 

 reveal the remains of his forbears. 



We seem to see life like a traveler on the road 

 hastening as it nears the goal. Who knows how 

 many millions of years it lingered with the first low 

 marine forms, or how many with the first inverte- 

 brates, or how many more with the fishes, or with 

 the reptiles, or with the huge mammalian forms? 

 It seems as if it began to hurry in the middle, or 

 Mesozoic, period. When the lemurs and baboons 

 were in sight in the Cenozoic age, it quickened its 



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