8 PREFACE 



far as this was necessary for the reader to understand 

 the questions. 



The book will, therefore, make the reader acquainted 

 with the animals that surround him, and teach him to 

 take an intelligent interest in the life of the forest 

 and the field. In this we have the most natural 

 foundation for the thoughts that reach out to embrace 

 the whole of life, and that in the end help to lay 

 open the entire world to the human mind. 



CONRAD GUENTHER. 



