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And the tree-toad is a masterpiece for the 



highest, 

 And the running blackberry would adorn the 



parlours of heaven, 

 And the narrowest hinge on my hand puts to 



scorn all machinery, 

 And the cow crunching with depressed head 



surpasses any statue, 

 And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger 



sextillions of infidels." 



As we begin to feel at home in Nature, our 

 wonder grows into delight and what may almost 

 be called affection. This is true of those who 

 have what Meredith called "love exceeding a 

 simple love of the things that glide in grasses and 

 rubble of woody wreck." In many ways we are 

 drawn close to Nature by emotional cords which 

 we sever at our peril. 



Historical inquiry shows that in the culture of 

 the mood which dominates the man of feeling 

 there have been two great schools human life 

 itself and Nature. It is evident that without 

 schooling in the human drama, with its joys and 

 sorrows, achievements and failures, Man would 

 have made much less of Nature emotionally. 

 One may go farther and say that without age- 

 long schooling in the Humanities, Man would 

 tave made much less of Nature. On the other 



