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Show I STILL A BABY I When man grows cocky and boasts of his conquest of nature, he forgets that he doesn't know what matter, time, life, electricity gravity, light and heat are He is at a loss when it comes to tkt'ininj any of the forces or other properties of the universi Pic may observe, he may learn the laws governing the manifest a-pons a-pons of nature, he may formulate theories. l.m seemingly a more intimate acquaintance with his environment has been denied him. The race has been placed in a nursery, the confines of which it can never see. it ha- been lmv.-i, toys wlndi it e.innol play skillfully far less does it understand them. There is the playroom to explore, there are new toys awaiting discovery, there are old pnes to be known Man is still lying on his back before the fire, sucking his thumb and kicking up his heels; be hasn't learned 1,, walk. But at that, he is a promising child. I |