rooned on this star, always
violently struggling, yet with no clearly seen goal before us. Men,
animals, insects--what tribe of us asks any object, except to keep
trying to satisfy its own master appetite? If the ants were earth's
lords they would make no more use of their lordship than to learn and
enjoy every possible method of toiling. Cats would spend their span of
life, say, trying new kinds of guile. And we, who crave so much to
know, crave so little but knowing. Some of us wish to know Nature most;
those are the scientists. Others, the saints and philosophers, wish to
know God. Both are alike in their hearts, yes, in spite of their
quarrels. Both seek to assuage, to no end, the old simian thirst.

If we wanted to _be_ Gods--but ah, can we grasp that ambition?

A NOTE ON THE TYPE IN WHICH THIS BOOK IS SET

_The text of this book was set on the linotype in Baskerville. The
punches for this face were cut under the supervision of George W.
Jones, an eminent English printer. Linotype Baskerville is a facsimile
cutting from type cast from the original matrices of a face designed by
John Baskerville. The original face was the forerunner of the "modern"
group of type faces.

John Baskerville (1706-75), of Birmingham, England, a writing-master,
with a special renown for cutting inscriptions in stone, began
experimenting about 1750 with punch-cutting and making typographical
material. It was not until 1757 that he published his first work, a
Virgil in royal quarto, with great-primer letters. This was followed by
his famous editions of Milton, the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer,
and several Latin classic authors. His types, at first criticized as
unnecessarily slender, delicate, and feminine, in time were recognized
as both distinct and elegant, and both his types and his printing were
greatly admired. Printers, however, preferred the stronger types of
Caslon, and Baskerville before his death repented of having attempted
the business of printing. For four years after his death his widow
continued to conduct his business. She then sold all his punches and
matrices to the Societe Litteraire-typographique, which used some of
the types for the sumptuous Kehl edition of Voltaire's works in seventy
volumes.--_

COMPOSED, PRINTED AND BOUND BY
H. WOLFF, NEW YORK. PAPER MADE
BY P. F. GLATFELTER & CO.,
SPRING GROVE, PA.

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