336 THE BOOK OF A NATURALIST 
meaning or spirit in all strange appearances in the 
natural world. It is the “sense of mystery,” and 
is with us in sight of a-magnificent and strange 
sunset, and of any unusual atmospheric strange- 
ness, down to the smallest objects that engage our 
attention—an insect, a flower, even our chequered 
daffodil of the river-fields. 
