UTAH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 29 
THE QUEST OF THE STUDENT OF NATURE. 
BY CHARLES GRIFFIN PLUMMER. M. D. 
(Abstract). 
He seeks TRUTH! 
His field of search and adventure is the Universe. 
His subjective mind and his objective mind partici- 
pate in every activity. His interpretation of the realm 
he contacts is restricted only when he is dominated by his 
objective mind. It is when he is ruled unreservedly by 
his subjective mind that he interprets to the fullness of 
his capacity. 
As he fares forth he promises himself that he will 
use his eyes and his ears ungrudgingly. He disregards 
the man-made orthodoxy that creation is made up of the 
animate and the inanimate classes. 
Those creatures that walk and run and crawl upon 
the earth, that fly in the air and swim in the sea, have a 
strange fascination for him, because they exhibit charac- 
teristics about which he knows little. 
It is probable that in his early life he was more 
directly concerned with such creatures because the teach- 
ings of many years led him to believe they alone mani- 
fested what is termed life. Yet when he grew to be more 
keenly observant and was wholly in harmony with his 
surroundings his attention became rivited upon that other 
division, the inanimate or lifeless (so-called) part of 
creation. 
Time comes when he acknowledges the potent per- 
sonality of the lowly weed and vegetable; the undying 
charm and beauty of the wayside flower; the imposing 
majesty of a giant tree; the strangely persistent cohesion 
of the rock and mineral molecules as they form the crust 
of the planet, as their mass is uplifted into great and rug- 
ged mountain chains or is reduced to dust by elemental 
activities that make the soil which affords lodgment for 
the seeds of all plant life. 
Then there is forced upon his consciousness the 
