REMARKABLE THINGS.
" For the mass of men, that is wonderful which is novel and ingenious— the submarine, the flying machine, the radio, television. And, of course, they are right," says Professor R. M. Gray in the Atlantic Monthly. "The trouble is that few perceive that such inventions are less mysterious than the brain that conceived them and guided the hand that fashioned them.
. . . - All one needs to hear the tonIgues in trees, to read the books in
brooks, is the leisure, the opportunity, and the receptive mind; but these small voices are drowned in the roar of civilisation, which also makes man preoccupied, pragmatic, and conceited. I would have him ponder | a day on a robin, a week on a waterfall, a month on a mountain. I would have him discover that the tiniest cascade in his brook is no different, [except in size, from Niagara or Zamibesi; that the same forces went to cut a channel as wide as his hand that went to gouge the canyon of the Colorado. Look at tehm through a telescope, and they may be quite as impressive. The humblest vista of unspoiled nature may become in time as beautiful and as mysterious as the grandest panorama seen from a
mountain peak. This is what the poets have been telling us ever since Orpheus, and yet it is what every man has to discover for himself. "
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIII, Issue 13, 16 February 1932, Page 4
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