Art Out-of-Doors 
value to most of us until we have learned to 
use them. And the best way to learn to 
use our eyes is not idly to cast them about, 
even though this may give us pleasure, but 
to try to discover what there is to be seen 
in the world, and then to try to perceive it 
all. Only thus can we grow wise in Nat- 
ure’s beauty ; but, I say, to grow wise in 
this sense we need not grow learned in a 
scientific sense. A mere smattering of 
knowledge, if it is accurate as far as it goes, 
will open the eyes to facts and the beauty of 
facts, and will make a solid basis for the fur- 
ther knowledge which will be almost uncon- 
sciously acquired. Once a little science has 
been “ learned in love,” once the channels 
of the soul, the feeders of the imagination, 
have been opened to Nature’s voice, we 
surely go on, by a process of instinctive see- 
ing, to a stage in aesthetic development 
which would never have been reached had 
we wandered idly about the world, thinking 
perhaps of beauty, but not thinking of the 
laws which govern it, or of the individuality 
of the myriad threads with which Nature 
weaves it on her mysterious loom. 
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