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possible, but because he knows how much inval- 

 uable local information can be only obtained from 

 fishermen, miners, hunters, and tillers of the soil. 

 Next, he should be brave and enterprising, and 

 withal patient and undaunted ; not merely in 

 travel, but in investigation ; knowing (as Lord 

 Bacon might have put it) that the kingdom of 

 nature, like the kingdom of heaven, must be 

 taken by violence, and that only to those who 

 knock long and earnestly does the great mother 

 open the doors of her sanctuary. He must be 

 of a reverent turn of mind also ; not rashly dis- 

 crediting any reports, however vague and frag- 

 mentary ; giving man credit always for some 

 germ of truth, and giving ndture credit for an 

 inexhaustible fertility and variety, which will 

 keep him his life long always reverent, yet never 

 superstitious ; Avondering at the commonest, but 

 not surprised by the most strange ; free from the 

 idols of size and sensuous loveliness ; able to see 

 grandeur in the minutest objects, beauty in the 

 most ungainly ; estimating each thing not carnal- 

 ly, as the vulgar do, by its size or its pleasantness 

 to the senses, but spiritually, by the amount of 

 Divine thought revealed to him therein ; hold- 

 ing every phenomenon worth the noting down ; 



