A STARFISH AND A DAISY 



AY after day the forms of horses, dogs, 

 birds, and other creatures pass before 

 our eyes. We look at them and call 

 them by the names which we have given them, 

 and yet we see them not. That is to say, we 

 /] [ say that they have a head, a tail; they run or 

 '/ ] fly; they are of one colour beneath, another above, 

 but beyond these bare meaningless facts most of 

 us never go. 



Let us think of the meaning of form. Take, for example, 

 a flower - a daisy. Now, if we could imagine such an 

 impossible thing as that a daisy blossom should leave its 

 place of growth, creep down the stem and go wandering 

 off through the grass, soon something would probably 

 happen to its shape. It would perhaps get in the habit 



of creeping with some one ray always in front, and the 



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