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but in plain American which cats and dogs can read! The letter in psalm and calm when
pronounced with the sound of "a" in candle, is very noticeable but

why should continents of mlsapprehenswn have to be accounted for by the
fact? Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools
which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous? In the case of mettlesomeness which may be
mistaken for appetite, of heat which may appear to be haste, no con-

clusions may be drawn. To have misapprehended the matter, is to have confessed
that one has not looked far enough. The sublimated wisdom
of China, Egyptian discernment, the cataclysmic torrent of emotion compressed
in the verbs of the Hebrew language, the books of the man who is able

to say, "'I envy nobody but him and him only, who catches more fish than
I do,'"—the flower and fruit of all that noted superi-
ority—should one not have stumbled upon it in Amenca, must one imagine
that it is not there? It has never been confined to one locality.