THE MUSEOLOGIST 



Thiti little magazine is denoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It 

 exists for the sake of all the Museum ivorkers, and offers itself as a ready 

 medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and 

 with the Corporation. 



It is issued by the Publicity Committee. 



Volume I October, 1920 Number 4 



The peculiar quality of Thoreau's mind lay in its happy 

 blending of the spirit of precise investigation with the genius 

 for beauty and the inspiration of. wonder. These, with his 

 illuminating imagination, swift humor and philosphical 

 bias, gave to all his observations an essential originality. 



Not formally trained in science, but minutely observant 

 and keenly responsive to the manifestations and moods of 

 nature, he saw with the eyes of a naturalist and the wonder of 

 a novice. And always he showed that intimate attraction for 

 his subject that defines the amateur. 



''Henry talks about Nature just as if she'd been born 

 and brought up in Concord," said Madame Hoar. 



His bent for the life of outdoors, emphasized by an un- 

 social disposition, made inevitable his revolt against the 

 struggle for existence, so exacting, in organized society, and 

 leaving so little leisure — sometimes, even, so little impulse — 

 to carry on spiritual growth. 



''The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What 

 is called resignation is confirmed desperation," he said; 

 and: 



"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life 

 which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the 

 long run." 



