EVOLUTION THEORIES 



Go out then with the herring-fleet for one 

 summer's holiday at least: work in the fields 

 a spring, a harvest, and tend the horse, as 

 well as hold the plough. Work too in the 

 garden, and this for kitchen as well as for 

 drawing-room; yet also for general beauty 

 as well as detailed use. Above all, and not 

 only for culture's sake but character's, get 

 out with the shepherds, till you know not 

 only something of their work, but of them- 

 selves. In each craft, at each level, learn 

 only goTYiA+h^g o f 



of its workers. pmr[ qf 



their cul |n re.-api ri t. for there is no true 

 work and no true worker without this: then 

 you can choose your occupation, or rather 

 it will choose you, and at such level as you 

 may be fit to rise to, here of its construc- 

 tive toil and skill, there of its song or story, 

 its science or its art. 



RUSTIC AND URBAN AS CONTRASTED IN 

 THOUGHT. Of all the many occupational 

 experiences there are but two main types, 

 those concerned with organic and with 

 physical nature, the rustic and the urban, 

 in a word, the vitaj^and the mechanical. 

 Here is the main contrast of town and 

 country, in their characteristic experiences, 

 their essential occupations; and the re- 

 sultant interpretative evolutionary stand- 



