The spiral tendency of vegetation infects education also.
Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
What a parade we make of our science, and how far off, and at arm’s length, it is from its objects!
Our botany is all names, not powers: poets and romancers talk of herbs of grace and healing; but what does the botanist know of the virtues of his weeds?
The geologist lays bare the strata, and can tell them all on his fingers: but does he know what effect passes into the man who builds his house in them?
what effect on the race that inhabits a granite shelf? what on the inhabitants of marl and of alluvium?
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