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But outside of these little lapses, Pliny writes sanely and well. Then comes a book on man, his evolution and physical qualities, with a history of the races. Next is a book on Zoology, with a resume of all that was written by Aristotle, and with many corroborations of Thompson-Seton and Rudyard Kipling.
Rousseau is the spiritual ancestor of John Burroughs, Thompson-Seton, and all our scientific, unscientific and sentimental friends who flood us with Nature stories fiction, fake or fact. In his "Emile" he outlines our so-called pedagogic new-thought methods. Birds' nests, bumblebees, hornets' nests, leaves, buds, flowers, grasses, mosses, are schoolroom properties to which he often refers.
An excellent account of animal life on the W. half of the Quebec Labrador is to be found in Life and Sport on the North Shore By Napoléon A. Comeau: Quebec, 1909. The zoology of the Mammals, though not particularly in their Labrador habitat, is to be found in Life-Histories of Northern Mammals By Ernest Thompson-Seton: London, Constable, 2 Vols., 1910.
There is one plant in our own garden, however, whose flourishing state will be denied by nobody namely, that kind of nature-writing identified with Thoreau and practised by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Starr King, John Burroughs, John Muir, Clarence King, Bradford Torrey, Theodore Roosevelt, William J. Long, Thompson-Seton, Stewart Edward White, and many others.
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