Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 163
rse intended to be comic,which, on the contrary, is really serious and philosoph-ical, if you understand it. Learn it by heart, and applyit to all kinds and conditions of things, and see if itdoes not help you to explain them to yourself. . . . And Man grew a thumb for that he had need of it,And… … HOW THE SOIL IS MADE (Fbom thb Formation of Vegetablk Mould.)By CHARLES DARWIN.
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