. The bird . THE POLE. AQUATIC BIRDS. That powerful fairy which endows man with most ofhis blessings and misfortunes, Imagination, sets herself t<iwork to travestie nature for him in a hundred all which exceeds his energies or wounds his sensa-tions, in all the necessities which oven-ule the harmony ofthe world, he is tempted to see and to curse a maleficentwill. One writer has made a book against the Alps; a-^i^ poet has foolishly placed the throne of evil among those beneficent glaciers which are the reservoir of the waters of Europe,which pour forth its rivers and make its fertil
. The bird . THE POLE. AQUATIC BIRDS. That powerful fairy which endows man with most ofhis blessings and misfortunes, Imagination, sets herself t<iwork to travestie nature for him in a hundred all which exceeds his energies or wounds his sensa-tions, in all the necessities which oven-ule the harmony ofthe world, he is tempted to see and to curse a maleficentwill. One writer has made a book against the Alps; a-^i^ poet has foolishly placed the throne of evil among those beneficent glaciers which are the reservoir of the waters of Europe,which pour forth its rivers and make its fertility. Others, still moreabsurdly, have vented their wrath upon the ices of the Pole, misunder- 72 THE POLE. standing the magnificent economy of the globe, the majestic balanceof those alternative currents which are the life of Ocean. They haveseen war and hate, and the malice of nature, in those regular andprofoundly pacific movements of the universal Mother. Such are the dreams of man. Animals, however, do no
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