THE COUNTRY HOME [chapteh 



Electrical energy at the same time meets the mod- 

 ern sciences, to enable us to apply them to land cul- 

 ture. We are enabled, as never before, to study 

 living nature about us. We must bear in mind 

 that as we have not reached the end of evolution, 

 neither have our companions. If we do not have 

 all the birds we want, it is because we do not know 

 enough about rearing them or protecting them. 

 No one has yet produced the most beautiful rose, 

 or the most delicious peach, or the most useful bird, 

 or the noblest man, or anything else that the world 

 is capable of yielding. "By proper care we can 

 have a world full, not only of such birds as we have 

 now, but of birds with sweeter song and more beau- 

 tiful plumage. In presence of these infinite pos- 

 sibilities for good or for ill, we must above all re- 

 member that every human action tends to make 

 the world a garden or a desert — a paradise of joy 

 and beauty or a vale of tears." John Burroughs 

 says that to produce and multiply endlessly, with- 

 out ever reaching the last possibility of excellence, 

 is the law of nature. 



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