. Bird-lore . ask as an educational endowment. Further, we will dowhat is far more important than mere money-saving, we will train children to bekind and gentle to birds and animals, without which trait of character they cannotbecome citizens of the highest type. P>om their ranks must come the men andwomen with high ideals who will carry on our work after we have laid down ourarms. I cannot better conclude than with these grand words of Wordsworth: Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe!Thou Soul, that art the Paternity of thought!And givest to forms and images a breathAnd everlasting motion! no
. Bird-lore . ask as an educational endowment. Further, we will dowhat is far more important than mere money-saving, we will train children to bekind and gentle to birds and animals, without which trait of character they cannotbecome citizens of the highest type. P>om their ranks must come the men andwomen with high ideals who will carry on our work after we have laid down ourarms. I cannot better conclude than with these grand words of Wordsworth: Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe!Thou Soul, that art the Paternity of thought!And givest to forms and images a breathAnd everlasting motion! not in vain,By day or starlight, thus from my first dawnOf childhood didst thou intertwine for meThe passions that build up our human soulNot with the mean and vulgar works of man,But with high objects, with enduring life and nature; purifying thusThe elements of feeling and of thought,And sanctifying by such disciplineBoth pain and fear,—until we recognize.\ grandeur in the beatings of the VOLXC; KUV.\L TERN Annual Report of Secretary 289 ANNUAL REPORT OF SECRETARY The past year of Audubon work has been marked by some of the fierceststruggles we have ever encountered with the enemies of bird and game the years when our legislative activities were devoted largely to securingthe enactment of laws for the protection of the non-game birds, our chief enemywas simple indifference to the importance of bird preservation on the part ofpeople generallv. In only a few instances did active opposition have to be over-•come. However, since the work of the Association has grown to include the field v^^> f^^^ T*^^, ■^S^ ^iif*^^
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