A-HUNTING WE WILL GO THESE earnest students are caught by Dr. O. Whitney Young's camera in the act of furthering the cause of science. The place: Ogden Canyon. The time: about four o'clock on a snowy February day. The occasion: a field trip for the purpose at tracking down the elusive flatworm. 1. A SHORT REST ON THE TRAIL BEFORE GOING ON. 2. "THERE IT IS; OH, IT ISN'T FLAT!" 3. THIS PICTURE WAS PURCHASED AT GREAT EXPENSE TO DR YOUNG, WHO, MANEUVERING FOR A GOOD ANGLE, SLIPPED AND FELL IN. 4. A RED-HEADED WOOD-PECKER CALLED FORTH THESE EXPRESSIONS OF RAPT ATTENTION. EVERYBODY SEES IT BUT DIL (BACKGROUND). 5. BACK DOWN THE TRAIL TOWARD THE CAMPING GROUND AND FOOD. 40 WINTER, 1943 LITERATURE (Continued) Del Sarto". Andrea is portrayed in this narrative as a perfect painter in the Italian Empire. Recognizing a great conception for a picture, he had the power to portray it on the canvas. Other artists in the Italian Empire envied him of his ability. He expressed his sorrow in these words: Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for. Browning felt that man must be reaching for something beyond that which he can grasp today if life is to be significant. Samuel Daniel in his poem, "To the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland", emphasized the importance of the ideal when he wrote: And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man. Edgar Allen, recognizing our natural tendency to gravitate toward that which we admire, wrote: The vision that you glorify in your mind, The ideal which you enthrone in your heart, This you will build your life by, This you will become. If the ideal is as important to life as these writers indicate, and I feel certain that such is the case, then literature offers a genuine contribution when it gives us the upward reach. And literature is a nursery of idealism and honor. Ralph Waldo Emerson pointed out that the hidden powers look with contempt upon whoever is satisfied with too little from life. He encouraged men to ask life for spiritual growth and refinement. His poem, "Damsels of Time", is fraught with this message: Damsels of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb lie barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and faggots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all. I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp, Forgot my morning wishes, hastily, Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I, too late, Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn. The burden of Shakespeare's message in his great tragedies, Macbeth and King Lear, is that substantial justice has ruled the world, that whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap," that the forces that make for righteousness are paramount in the world. Macbeth's infractions of the moral law produced his "scorpions" of the mind, his moral cowardice, and made him surrender to an ignoble pessimism. After he had become confirmed in sin to soliloquized: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fully, Signifying nothing. Earlier Macbeth had said: My way of life is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, and troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Shakespeare justifies God's ways to man again in King Lear. When the tables turn against Goneril, Regan, and the Duke of Cornwall, Lear's two RALPH WALDO EMERSON villainous daughters and his son in law, Albany says: This shows you are above, You justicers, that these our nether crimes So speedily can venge. In "Locksley Hall," Alfred Tennyson develops the idea that love makes time "run swiftly and goldenly", creates altruism, and annihilates self: Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that trembling, passed in music out of sight. The power of love to ease the burdens which fall heavily on those who harbor hatred and revenge is stressed by Tennyson in his poem, "Maud": So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate, I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight. Solomn, turning our eyes to another ethical horizon, exhorted the Israelites to cultivate wisdom and understanding to the end that they would live the chaste life. He performs this service by revealing his anathema for unchastity: Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding thy kinswoman; That they may keep thee from the strange Woman, from the stranger which flattereth With her words. For at the window of my house I looked Through the casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. (Continued on page 42) 41