Let Us Not Be Too Entirely Mechanical, Baconian, And Experimental Only; Let Us Let The Soul Hope And Dream And Float On These Oceans Of Accumulated Facts, And Feel Still Greater Aspiration Than It Has Ever Known Since First A Flint Was Chipped Before The Glaciers.

Man's mind is the most important fact with which we are yet acquainted.

Let us not turn then against it and deny its existence with too many brazen instruments, but remember these are but a means, and that the vast lens of the Californian refractor is but glass - it is the infinite speck upon which the ray of light will fall that is the one great fact of the universe. By the mind, without instruments, the Greeks anticipated almost all our thoughts; by-and-by, having raised ourselves up upon these huge mounds of facts, we shall begin to see still greater things; to do so we must look not at the mound under foot, but at the starry horizon.

THE JULY GRASS.

A July fly went sideways over the long grass. His wings made a burr about him like a net, beating so fast they wrapped him round with a cloud. Every now and then, as he flew over the trees of grass, a taller one than common stopped him, and there he clung, and then the eye had time to see the scarlet spots - the loveliest colour - on his wings. The wind swung the bennet and loosened his hold, and away he went again over the grasses, and not one jot did he care if they were - Poa - or - Festuca - , or - Bromus - or - Hordeum - , or any other name.

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