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BOOK VIII.
FRUIT AND SEED.
CHAPTER LVIII.
"Much adoe there was, God wot;
He wold love and she wold not."
—Nicholas Breton.
Extension, we know, is a very imperfect measure of things; and the length of the sun's journeying can no more tell us how far life has advanced than the acreage of a field can tell us what growths may be active within it. A man may go south, and, stumbling over a bone, may meditate upon it till he has found a new starting-point for anatomy; or eastward, and discover a new key to language telling a new story of races; or he may head an expedition that opens new continental pathways,
