. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. Birds-eye view of Niagara Kiver. The Geology of Nie^ BY Dean ojthe Laivreme Scieniijjc Si hcol. Harvard University. THE effect of the more majestic spectacles of nature is to turn the mind of the observer away fromthe philosophy of the e\cnts which he is IS a natural and wholesome action of all splendid,things ; he is indeed happy who flies at once to specu-lation as to the cause of that which he for the first time
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. Birds-eye view of Niagara Kiver. The Geology of Nie^ BY Dean ojthe Laivreme Scieniijjc Si hcol. Harvard University. THE effect of the more majestic spectacles of nature is to turn the mind of the observer away fromthe philosophy of the e\cnts which he is IS a natural and wholesome action of all splendid,things ; he is indeed happy who flies at once to specu-lation as to the cause of that which he for the first timefreely beholds. There is, however, a second stage inthe service which the great spectacles of the earth cando for us. This is where we seek to understand theways in which the offering is made to our souls. Thewell-trained naturalist, indeed any one who is attentiveto the aesthetic as well as the rational opportunities ofthe world, learns in a manner to combine these im-pressions which may come to him by instinctive ap-preciation and by knowledge. To him the beautifuland the magnificent are none the less moving becausehe sees them in the perspective of history, or in thegreat assemblage of causations. It is the fairestprovince of science to afford these accessories ofunderst
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