m 
^ 
"If 
^ CHILD OF NATURE 
)\ made up of slight but well-defined 
tracings of his course through the 
mysterious world of his journeying. 
If the little note-books in which 
this record was kept had fallen into 
the hands of an unimaginative man, 
they would have seemed but a con- 
fusion of abrupt and incomplete 
phrases ; a man of insight, finding 
the key to their revelations, would 
have seen in them the stuff of 
which wonder-books are made ; the 
star dust of great truths, the pollen 
of the imperishable flowering of 
imagination, the seeds of brave 
deeds ; such gathering of treasure, 
in a word, as befalls the man who 
travels through a universe alight 
with the splendour of God and 
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