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The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty By: Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) |
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THE HEART OF NATURE OR THE QUEST FOR NATURAL BEAUTY
BY SIR FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND
K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E.
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
AUTHOR OF "THE HEART OF A CONTINENT"
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1921
CONTENTS Preface ix x
Introduction xv xxviii PART I Chapter I. The Sikkim Himalaya. The sacred Ganges A beneficent
power Beauty of the plains First sight of the Himalaya 3 12 Chapter II. The Teesta Valley. Mystery of the forest The gorges
Sequestered glens 13 19 Chapter III. The Forest. Butterflies Ferns Orchids Flower
friends Rhododendrons Temperate vegetation Primulas Artic
vegetation The range of vegetation 20 37 Chapter IV. The Denizens of the Forest. Butterflies Moths Birds
Reptiles Mammals Animal beauty Primitive man Higher races
38 54 Chapter V. The Sum Impression. Two views of Nature Variety of
life Intensity of life The battle of life Adaptation and selection
Purposiveness Purposeful structures Interdependence Organising
Activity Gradation Care of offspring the Activity not mechanical
but Spiritual Nature's end a Common aspiration 55 85 Chapter VI. Kinchinjunga. The foothills Darjiling A vision of the
mountain Full view Mountain grandeur Dawn on the mountain
Sunset on the mountain 86 99 Chapter VII. High Solitudes. Kashmir Barren mountains Dazzling
peaks Purity of beauty 100 108 Chapter VIII. The Heavens. Desert sunsets Tibetan sunsets The
stars The whole universe our home A Heavenly Presence 109 120 Chapter IX. Home Beauty. One's own country Woman's beauty
Love and beauty Their Divine Source Wedding Divine union
The Inmost Heart of Nature 121 134 Chapter X. The Nature of Nature. A spiritual background Purpose
in Nature Higher beings No confining plan Immanent Spirit
Collective personality England a Person Nature a Person Moved
by an ideal The ideal in plants The ideal in animals The ideal in
the world 135 160 Chapter XI. Nature's Ideal. Battling with physical Nature Battling
with man In tune with Nature At the heart of the Universe is
Love Divine fellowship is Nature's Ideal 161 171 Chapter XII. The Heart of Nature. Picturing the Ideal The Ideal
Man Man and woman Perfecting the Ideal Discipline necessary
Leadership Nature's method Our own responsibility The
lovability of nature God at the Heart of Nature 172 192 PART II Natural Beauty and Geography Presidential Address to the Royal Geographical Society 195 216 An Address to the Union Society of University College, London
217 235 PREFACE The value of Knowledge and Character is duly impressed upon us.
Of the value of Freedom we are told so much that we have come to
regard it as an end in itself instead of only a means, or necessary
condition. But Beauty we are half inclined to connect with the
effeminate. Poetry, Music, and Literature are under suspicion with
the average English schoolboy, whose love of manliness he will
share with nothing else. Yet love of Beauty persists in spite of all
discouragement, and will not be suppressed. Natural Beauty,
especially, insists on a place in our affections, derived originally
from Love, and essentially and inseparably connected with it,
Natural Beauty acknowledges supremacy to Love alone. And it
deserves our generous recognition, for it is wholesome and
refreshing for our souls. The acute observation and telling description of Natural Beauty is at
least as necessary for the enjoyment of life as the pursuit of Natural
Science to which so much attention is paid. For the concern of the
former is the character, and of the latter only the cause of natural
phenomena; and of the two, character is the more important. It is,
indeed, high time that we Englishmen were more awake than we are
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