Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . und it on thegrass, and up against a pillar sat GainlyJones, bent over Kiyis body, that was onhis knees. One of the yellow robes re-cited a monotonous chant. Maybe it wasa funeral service, but I got the notionthey were going over their laws and gos-pels for the benefit of Jones. When Jones looked up, the reciterstopped and it was all quiet. Then Jonessaid, huskily: See here, Buck, whats theuse ? They cant make no Oriental of aint right, Buck. Now, is it? No,it aint right. Then I backed out of that assembly. It seemed to m
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . und it on thegrass, and up against a pillar sat GainlyJones, bent over Kiyis body, that was onhis knees. One of the yellow robes re-cited a monotonous chant. Maybe it wasa funeral service, but I got the notionthey were going over their laws and gos-pels for the benefit of Jones. When Jones looked up, the reciterstopped and it was all quiet. Then Jonessaid, huskily: See here, Buck, whats theuse ? They cant make no Oriental of aint right, Buck. Now, is it? No,it aint right. Then I backed out of that assembly. It seemed to me it was a propositiona man might as well dodge. Only I rec-ollect how little Kiyi looked uncommonlittle, like a wisp of dried hay, and GainlyJones uncommon large, with his fist rest-ing on the stone floor, and his big bonyarm bare, and his head hung over Kiyi,and his clothes scarcely proper for awhite man. Ay, I dont know. Maybe GainlyJones been studying what might be calledthe Kiyi proposition ever since, but,concluded Captain Buckingham, Ivebeen dodging Portrait of William Harvey The Invisible Philosophers BY EDMUND GOSSE IN the pursuit of pure knowledge thereis little to gratify the vanity of anindividual. That reverence for theprecursors, which we meet with in thehistory of the arts and of literature, doesnot occur in the history of science. ACaedmon in poetry, a Palestrina in mu-sic, a Cimabue in painting, is interestingand attractive in his very incompleteness;the freshness of his genius fascinatesour attention, and we do not ask whetherhe was not presently superseded. But thecollective labor of creating knowledge isincessant, and it occupies successivegenerations of laborers, who work anddie and are forgotten. They clear a littlespace in the jungle; they try false pathsand scale useless heights. Others followthem with new developments and fresh formulas, and these clear another littlespace. The pioneers are buried in theforest, and we build no memorials to
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