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Try it not, Reader, if, indeed, in thy colony of beavers a poet really dwells. He is a born palaeontologist: that is, he can build up an epic from a hint. And, despite modern instances, the old rule obtains for him, he need not be learned that is, not deeply or abundantly, only at points superficially, the superficial would say.
For the book of Genesis of the old Bible we have substituted the book of genesis of the rocky scripture of the globe a book torn and mutilated, that has been through fire and flood and earthquake shock, that has been in the sea and on the heights, and that only the palaeontologist can read or decipher correctly, but which is a veritable bible of the succession of life on the earth.
We have not seen it at work because our little span of life is too short. Only the palaeontologist traces in the records of the rocks the footsteps of this god of change. And rarely if ever does he find a continuous and complete record only a footprint here and there, but he sees the direction in which they are going and many of the places where the traveler tarried.
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