TIME AND CHANGE 
on the farm. When we look upon Nature with fond- 
ness and appreciation she meets us halfway and 
takes a deeper hold upon us than when studiously 
conned. Hence I say the way of knowledge of Na- 
ture is the way of love and enjoyment, and is more 
surely found in the open air than in the school-room 
or the laboratory. The other day I saw a lot of col- 
lege girls dissecting cats and making diagrams of the 
circulation and muscle-attachments, and I thought 
it pretty poor business unless the girls were taking 
a course in comparative anatomy with a view to 
some occupation in life. What is the moral and in- 
tellectual value of this kind of knowledge to those 
girls? Biology is, no doubt, a great science in the 
hands of great men, but it is not for all. I myself 
have got along very well without it. I am sure I 
can learn more of what I want to know from a kit- 
ten on my knee than from the carcass of a cat in 
the laboratory. Darwin spent eight years dissecting 
barnacles; but he was Darwin, and did not stop at 
barnacles, as these college girls are pretty sure to 
stop at cats. He dissected and put together again 
in his mental laboratory the whole system of animal 
life, and the upshot of his work was a tremendous 
gain to our understanding of the universe. 
I would rather see the girls in the fields and woods 
studying and enjoying living nature, training their 
eyes to see correctly and their hearts to respond 
intelligently. What is knowledge without enjoy- 
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