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THROUGH NATURE
TO GOD
BY
JOHN FISKE
Soyez comme l'oiseau posé pour un instant
Sur des rameaux trop frêles,
Qui sent ployer la branche et qui chante pourtant,
Sachant qu'il a des ailes!
Victor Hugo
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1900
COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY JOHN FISKE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO THE BELOVED AND REVERED MEMORY
OF MY FRIEND
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
THIS BOOK IS CONSECRATED