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208 CORDEAUX: ADDRESS TO YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS. 
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ultra-violet rays, although not visible to ourselves, are apparently 
Seen by some insects. From which we may learn that— 
Other eyes than ours 
Were made to look on flowers; 
Eyes of small birds, and insects small 
special instrumental appliances. It is a remarkable fact that 
The tiniest living thing 
That soars on feathered wing, : 
Or crawls among the long grass out of sight, 
Has just as good a righ 
To its appointed portion of delight, 
As any King. : : 
Education, and a knowledge of what man has done in the ee 
is not now the prerogative of the wealthy, but has been browgit 
within reach and understanding of all classes, and every individal 
whose brain capacity is equal to the reception. Your noble Victo® 
Senses cannot grow and feed’ the mind when the fetters of — 
are allowed to hold them back from the living touch of Na a 
- + . ‘It is the man who is in touch with things, and not d 
deadening words; it is the man who learns from the br se 
Nature, and not from the weak and broken transcript of 2 a 
words of others ; it is the man, before writing, who 1s the itera . 
thought and sight, and the unfailing source from which lites" 
may draw its health and life.’ 
It is a subject of much regret that our forefathers 
a rule, leave fuller records of their natural surroundings een wore 
birds, fishes, and flowers ; these, a century ago, must et 
