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CHAPTER XIII 

 THE POETIC SPIRIT 



The naturalist's mind and men's complex nature An eminent ethnolo- 

 K gist The use of fools The simple animal mind Herring gull 

 and rock-pipit Man and animals compared The imaginative 

 faculty Cornish poets Hawker of Morwenstow Prose writers 

 Thomas Carew Purity of race in Cornwall Dearth of 

 imaginative work A prosaic people Cornwall and Ireland con- 

 trasted Reason of difference Cornish legends Mystery plays 

 Wesley's mission and greatness Ugliness of Methodism Effect 

 on the child's mind. 



THE naturalist's mental habit of always trying 

 to get at the reason and hidden significance 

 of things is apt to become a worry when he 

 begins to look closely at his fellow-creatures with the 

 object of rinding out what they really are, or what 

 the character of this particular human family or herd 

 is compared with that of some other herd which he 

 has studied and thinks he knows. Or perhaps it 

 would be nearer the mark to say that his anxiety to 



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