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Title: The Naturalist as interpreter and seer
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Natural history Evolution
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
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site withboldly treated lilies, poppies, and columbines.172 The Strange Story of the Flowers In the drawing-room are embroideries designedby two young women of Salem, Massachusetts,who have established a thriving industry intransferring the glow of wild flowers to the adorn-ment of noble houses such as this. As one goesfrom studio to studio, it is cheering to find somany men and women busy at work which ismore joyful than play,—which in many casesfirst taken up as a recreation disclosed a vein ofgenuine talent and so pointed to a career moredelightful than any other,—because it chimes inwith the love of beauty and the power of givingit worthy expression. LoiUf 173 tf
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Little Masterpiecesof Science Edited by George lies the Naturalist as in-terpreter and seer By Charles DarwinAlfred R. WallaceThomas H. HuxleyLeland O. HowardGeorge lies 4&P NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1902 Copyright, 1902, by Doubleday, Page & Co.Copyright, 1S77, by D. Appleton & Co.Copyright, igor, by John WanamakerCopyright, iStfS.by G. H. Buek & Co. PREFACE To gather stones and fallen boughs is soon toask, what may be done with them, can theybe piled and fastened together for shelter ? So be-gins architecture, with the hut as its first step,with the Alhambra, St. Peters, the capitol atWashington, as its last. In like fashion the amass-ing of fact suggests the ordering of fact: when ob-servation is sufficiently full and varied it comesto the reasons for what it sees. The geologistdelves from layer to layer of the earth beneathhis tread, he finds as he compares their fossilsthat the more recent forms of life stand highestin the scale of being, that in thenaturalistasint00newy

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