The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 233
Man, then, is a child of earth —this particu-lar earth of ours; he is exquisitely fitted for it,and it for him, not only in its air, and soil, andoceans, and heat, but also in the kind, and thebalance, as we may say, of the thousands of ani-mals and plants that inhabit it with him. We arecertain…
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