| Show EXCLUSIVE PURSUITS PURSUIT i ill iii society we constantly meet with 11 men of one idea as they are aptly termed or in other words with ni nin men n who from long devoti onto to one particular science or study to the exclusion of all others have become thoroughly permeated with the peculiar habituation of 1 to which such exclusiveness inesita bly leads thus we find that th the 0 erf 14 ton tonio cologie log b has no appreciation for oter er charms than those which aarein evolved in the practical study or pursuit of bus bugs and beetles and that beyond the contracted limits of this particular science he sees nothings nothing and feels nothing ile he lives as a s litiere in a hole from whence we cannot entice him 1 except we throw out some tiling us as a lure your geologist ignores the beauties of trees tree sand and howers flowers while lie he cracks his knuckles with the giai hammer anier with which he fie scales oft off rare specimens of rocks at the same time that your entomologist P tramples curious pebbles in the rn raire ire as he goes off offin in a frantic scramble after the peculiarly culi arly brilliant Fo lucella plu maia inala and that epitome of all the diabolical nesses of the latin ton tongue t ue the velo melo jontha ornis we do not argue that every geologist or entomologist must of necessity be a man of one idea but that the great m majority ijo rity of those who devote themselves exclusively to one particular line of study 1 are obnoxious to the charge people people of this tin s stamp are the atil dullest lest of companions pan ions like diogenes ene s they live ill ia a tub and tub is all theysel th they eysee see and tub all they can appreciate it is dwle to present il to 0 their dwarfed under standings the beauties which lie beyond the scope of their contracted vis 4 ions for their appreciative capacities are already exhausted in their bi blind lid devotion to the one particular object of admiration it has hag been said that a little knowl ovil dge is a dangerous tiling but iw in such stich cases the converse conver se ot of tile the apropo is true life is dotso not so long nor are arc ahn th resources of pleasure so vast that a man can call afford to chain himself to one post of anderst un understanding derst anding and ig nore the wider range of universal knowledge knowledg 0 e for all the general uses of life the atif nearer aver tile the mind assimilates to fo an ail the better pleas ure tire is a harp of many strings and ho be IV who llo can call thrum upon one only foro goes oes tile the perception of that full coan corn eness which we call harmony X i i y i |
