Second Printing, October 1955 



Copyright 1954 by Joseph Wood Krutch. Copyright © 1955 by Joseph 

 Wood Krutch. All rights reserved. Published simultaneously in the Do- 

 minion of Canada by George J. McLeod Limited, Toronto. Manufactured 

 in the United States of America by H. Wolff, New York. Library of Con- 

 gress Catalog Card Number: 55-8485 



Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following periodicals for permis- 

 sion to reprint material which appeared originally in their pages : 



The American Scholar, for "Conservation Is Not Enough" and "He Was 



There Before Coronado" 

 The Virginia Quarterly Review, for "The Moth and the Candle" 



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