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all beholders; indeed, is our education quite complete 

 unless we have some knowledge of our kinsmen? A 

 philosophic touch may be given if we show how the 

 dominant race has been successively trilobitic, fishy, 

 amphibian, reptilian, and mammalian; and it is 

 always agreeable to find our own selves standing on 

 the top of the entrancing series. 



Is it not captivating? — a study that appeals to the 

 open country under the open air; that takes equal 

 count of the long days of sunlight and the bitter 

 battery of the rain; that makes the slow stream, 

 when it floods the cellars of the burghers in the city, 

 call to us none the less with the voice of far-off hills ; 

 and that makes us, when we view the ranges of 

 chimney - tops from our bedroom windows, aware 

 that out in the great world beyond there are visions 

 older than empires, where the long range of the snow 

 peaks stands against a non-political and cloudless 

 sky? 



