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arctic to the gulf has on one occasion or another probably 
served man t"-th f^'au#. One flock per- 
haps has thrilled a score of schoolboys, and sent them scurry- 
ing home with tales of high adventure. Another, passing over- 
head of a dark night, has serenaded a whole city with goose 
music, and awakened who knows what questionings and mem- 
ories and hopes. A third perhaps has given pause to some 
farmer at his plow, and brought new thoughts of far lands 
and journeyings and peoples, where before was only drudgery, 
barren of any thought at all. I am sure. those thousand geese 
are paying human dividends an                  c aclt if tw .A1ai ..aA. 
TI.h &Ac....ing W2{),OWi_ is only  an exchange value, like the 
sale value of a painting or the copyright of a poem. What about 
the replacement value? Spposing there were no longer any 
 
painting, ,r poery, or goose music? 
dwell upon, but it must be answered 
body might write another Iliad, or 
fashion a -oo? ' the Lor 
the Lord hath done this, and the iloly 
Is it impious to weigh goose mu 
scales? I think not, because the true 
creative artist. Who painted the first 
 
avnW    Fran    A hunter. Who alone in our modern life so 
thrills to the sight of living-beaty that he will endure hunger 
and thirst and cold to feed his eye upon it? The hunter. Who 
wrote the great hunter's poem about the sheer wonder of the 
wind, the hail, and the snow, the stars, the lightnings, and the 
clouds, the lion, the deer, and the wild goat, the raven, the 
hawk, and'the eagle, and above all the eulogy of the horse? 
Job, one of the great dramatic artists of all time. Poe-s sing 
-'and hunters scale the mountains primarily for one and the 
same reason-the thrill to beauty. Critics write and hunters 
outwit their game primarily for one and the same reason-to 
 
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