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hollow logs, and where nuts are to bo found and 

 toadstools grow, he knows the common birds 

 and beasts by sight, as a dumb person knows 

 them without names, he plans and acts in such 

 ways as each day has needs, he does not know 

 beyond the limits of his wanderings. We too 

 are soon lost. Begin where we will to study, to 

 investigate, and directly we arrive at the boun- 

 dary of all human knowledge in that direction, 

 and can only say, witli the apostle of old, " God 

 knows, I cannot tell." 



