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what might have been expected.

Till scientific men are less shy of
that greater part of nature which is
contained in human nature, we shall
have from them nothing but under
-ground theories and outer-plane-
-tary-systems. The philosophic poet
of a former time insisted that "the
proper study of mankind is man";
but much of the science of our day
gives itself to rock and reptile, shell
and bone, brute & bird, and of man – it
saith, of beast thou art and unto
beast shalt thou return, and when
thou hast so returned thou shalt re-
-ceive all due consideration.)

[Emblem printed, upside-down, in center of page.]
Bacon & Company
Excelsior Press
San Francisco