Excerpt from Bird Biographies

Long before the place of birds in the great scheme of nature was understood, they made their appeal: first, to primitive man, who had curious Superstitions and created beautiful myths concerning them, next, to poets and dreamers of ancient civilizations, who used them in allu sions beautiful with Oriental imagery, to artists, who de lighted in portraying symbolism, to later poets and lovers of beauty, who perceived deep truths and revelations of God, and to scientists, who saw back of the phenomena of nature the marvelous laws of God.

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