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Excerpt from The Biology of the Seasons
The aim of this book is to get at the gist or inwardness of the seasonal drama, without going too minutely into the details of the successive scenes. In other words, it is a study of certain biological aspects of the seasons, not in any sense a naturalist's year-book, that I have essayed.
The book is intended for all who enjoy the pageant of the year and the drama of the seasons, and who see something of the import of the annual analysis - as if through a prism - of the evolutionary flow of things. There is some reason to believe that Man was helped to find himself long ago by his discovery of the Year - with its educative object-lesson of recurrent sequences and long processions of causes. Similarly to-day we may be helped to live on more equal terms with Time by getting back into close and appreciative touch with the march of the seasons. But if that touch is to be natural to men of to-day, it must be scientific as well as practical and emotional. Hence this contribution to a Biology of the Seasons. It is hoped that it may be of particular service to those who have to conduct courses of Nature-Study, which should certainly follow the seasons as closely as possible.
I am well aware that this series of studies and sketches - some more impressionist, some more analytic - cannot be more than illustrative of the biological outlook on the seasons.
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