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The Heart of Nature; or, The Quest for Natural Beauty

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Younghusband Francis Edward Sir

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[Note: for this online edition I have moved the Table of Contents to the beginning of the text and added three asterisks to mark breaks between sections. I have also made the following spelling changes: latitute to latitude and mountain ash berberis to mountain ash berberries]

THE HEART OF NATURE

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

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