90 VIGNETTES FROM NATURE. 



lace and Henri II. pottery, from the circular 

 hut to Salisbury and Chartres. We feel, also, 

 the beauty of its home associations, of its con- 

 nected legendary lore, of its old English 

 name, of its domestic familiarity. We feel 

 the reflection upon it of much poetical fancy 

 and dainty conceit. All these things go to 

 make up our sense of beauty when we look 

 at a speedwell, just as much as the blue 

 colour and the primitive instinct of our semi- 

 human progenitors. Do not let us shut our 

 eyes, like Mr. Ruskin, to the elementary 

 facts disclosed by biology ; but do not let us, 

 on the other hand, try to resolve our whole 

 complex nature into quadrumanous elements. 

 Man is none the less man because we believe 

 that his very remote ancestor was a sort of 

 distant cousin to the gorilla. We to-day are 

 none the more gorillas for all that. 



