The Idolatry of Science 



ing the pleasant pastime under the just censure 

 of every other user of the highway, and draw- 

 ing an undeserved odium upon all the owners 

 of cars of modest power. 



But to the reasonable owner who is satis- 

 fied with the speed limit and with a journey 

 of a hundred miles in a long summer day, 

 leaving him time and opportunity to linger in 

 beautiful villages and pause when he tops 

 the long hill to enjoy the distant prospect, 

 nothing is more delightful than to glide along 

 with a pleasant companion over the hills and 

 far away, to enjoy the frugal meal on some 

 lonely summit, or upon a river bank, or in the 

 deep woods, to reach in the evening some 

 mellow old cathedral town, to sleep in the 

 venerable inn in which our fathers lay when 

 they travelled by the king's highway, and to 

 rise again " to-morrow to fresh woods and 

 pastures new " and take the road early enough 

 to watch the slanting sun. 



