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. 



