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Show Knowledge and Enjoyment What we love to do, that we do well. To know Is not all ; It Is only half. To love Is the other half. Wordsworth's poet wss contented If he might enjoy the things which others understand-Tills understand-Tills is generally the attitude of the young and of the poetic nature. The man of science, on the other band, is contented If he may understand the things that others enjoy; that la his enjoyment. Contemplation and absorption absorp-tion for the one; Investigation and classification for the other. We prob ably all have, In varying degrees, one or other of these waya of enjoying Nature; either the' sympathetic and emotional enjoyment of her whlen the young and the artistic and the poet po-et fc temperament have, or the enjoyment enjoy-ment through our knowing faculties afforded af-forded by natural science, or It may be,' the two combined, as they certainly were In such a man as Tyndall. John Burroughs. |
