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their Darwins and Vilmorins, their Gartons 

 and Burbanks; with ttbfi m $ important 

 difference that thgse achieved -iTfl|pf!fl.siir- 



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Again, is it likely that those who could 

 transform t.hg hirkii^^j^lfish depredator 

 jjito th,fi tjp\][sty &] i fli^fl j f\ i\ j^f, \ jieii^^Qcks . the 

 wjl j_cai;^le ir^to patient ^ox and gently (?pw. 

 the jftjld^ horse intoJthg^Arab, jieglected their 



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r even misunderstood it as all 

 istoric aristocracies have done? True, we 

 have not their history in the letter, yet we 

 have much of it in the spirit; that of the 

 folk-tales and fairy tales, of which the most 

 childlike and sympathetic of the sciences is 

 steadily recovering the values and the mean- 

 ings; and these old child-tales are even re- 

 turning towards their social and vital appli- 

 cations aJbove aU_jhat_of presenting .the 

 love asTtie^quesL^of lif e which_Qiir 



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\Vhereas out of 

 all this recovery of the golden age and of the 

 ancient garden of fruitful labour, does there 

 not emerge the idea that its guardians, so 

 much wiser and happier than we knew, had 

 thought not only for the simpler creatures 

 they cared for and ruled and elevated, but 



