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Identifier: throughmagicdoor00doyluoft (find matches)
Title: Through the magic door
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Subjects: Books and reading
Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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HROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR dog-and-cat anecdotes, but it is a series ofvery singularly told stories which deal withthe animal side of the human, and whichyou will feel have an entirely new flavourif you have a discriminating palate. Thebook came out ten years ago, and is utterlyunknown. If I can point to three in onesmall shelf, how many lost lights must beflitting in the outer darkness ! Let me hark back for a moment to thesubject with which I began, the romance oftravel and the frequent heroism of modernlife. I have two books of Scientific Explora-tion here which exhibit both these qualitiesas strongly as any I know. I could notchoose two better books to put into a youngmans hands if you wished to train him firstin a gentle and noble firmness of mind, andsecondly in a great love for and interestin all that pertains to Nature. The one isDarwins Journal of the Voyage of theBeagle. Any discerning eye must havedetected long before the Origin of Speciesappeared, simply on the strength of this
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CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, IX. P., E.R.S. From th<- Painting <</ Hon. Jol THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR 243 book of travel, that a brain of the firstorder, united with many rare qualities ofcharacter, had arisen. Never was there amore comprehensive mind. Nothing wastoo small and nothing too great for its alertobservation. One page is occupied in theanalysis of some peculiarity in the web of aminute spider, while the next deals with theevidence for the subsidence of a continent,and the extinction of a myriad animals.And his sweep of knowledge was so great,botany, geology, zoology, each lending itscorroborative aid to the other. How a youthof Darwins age—he was only twenty-threewhen in the year 1831 he started round theworld on the surveying ship Beagle—couldhave acquired such a mass of informationfills one with the same wonder, and is perhapsof the same nature, as the boy musician whoexhibits by instinct the touch of the master.Another quality which one would be lessdisposed to look

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  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Doyle__Arthur_Conan__Sir__1859_1930
  • booksubject:Books_and_reading
  • bookpublisher:London_Murray
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  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:280
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