-^ From Cave-dweller's Sketch to Photograph 



nature around him as on the whole unfriendly and 

 menacing. But since those times there has been a 

 change for the better, even though it cannot be denied 

 that many men require very specially adjusted spectacles 

 to enable them to enjoy this or that beauty of the nature 

 around them ! Thus the landowner feels a pleasing 



A SMALL HERD OF FEMALE BLACK-TAILED ANTELOPES RUNNING AWAY THROUGH 



HIGH GRASS. 



satisfaction at the sight of his cornfields. And yet these 

 cornfields are hardly anything else but an artificially formed 

 bit of bare velt, on which at certain times a short-lived 

 vegetation grows up, whilst at other times the naked soil 

 presents itself to the eye — uninviting, stripped of all 

 adornment, arid and empty. Thus, too, the man who 

 loves wine feels that well-cultivated vineyards are a 

 beautiful sight ; but it may be doubted whether he would 



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