The Heart of Nature: The Quest for Natural Beauty (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE THE value of Knowledge and Character is duly hnpressed 11 pon us. Of the vaJue of Freedom ,ve are told so much that we have COJne to regard it as an end in itself instead of only a Ineans, or necessary condition. But Beauty v{e are ha1f-inclined to connect with the effeminate. Poetry., Music, and Literature arc under suspicion with the average English schoolboy, whose love of manliness he will share with nothing else. Yet love of Beauty persists in spite of an discouragement, and will not be suppressed . Natural Beauty, especially, insists on a place j n our affections. Derived originally froln Love, and essentially and inseparably c~nnected with it, Natural Beauty acknowledges supremacy to Love alone. And it deserves our generous recognition, for it is wholesome" and refreshing for our souls. The acute observation and telling description of Natural Beauty is at least as necessary fOl~ the enjoyment of life as the pursuit of Natural Science to which so muc

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