THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



same experience is between persons. As a 

 rule, an intellectual conviction, however well 

 founded, must be followed by a period of 

 incubation and growth before it can blossom 

 into a definite principle of action, before the 

 man who holds it is ready to work or fight 

 in order to carry it out. There is a rate in 

 the adoption of new ideas beyond which 

 only the most unusual circumstances will in- 

 duce men's minds to move. Forestry has 

 gone ahead in the United States faster than 

 it ever did in any other land. If it proceeds 

 a little less rapidly, now that so much of the 

 field has been won, there will be no reason 

 for discouragement in that. 



As A SUBORDINATE OFFICER 



Necessarily the young Forester will begin 

 as a subordinate. How soon he will come to 

 give orders of his own will depend on how 

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