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Title
The Biology of Autumn
Description
ARGUMENT.-Life is rhythmic and is punctuated by the seasons. The curve of life is undulatory; summer is the crest of the wave, winter the trough, spring and autumn the ascending and descending curves. No one note expresses autumn. It is a time of dying, but the fruits and seeds speak of the abundance and continuance of life. It is a time of withering, decadence, and falling asleep ; but also of storing, preparing, and supreme effort. To feel only 'the sadness of autumn implies a partial view, like that pessimism which exalts itself as a complete philosophy of life.
Publisher
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Date
Autumn 1895
Rights
Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives and Special Collections
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives and Special Collections
Relation
Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
Language
English
Type
Image, Text
Essay
Identifier
EGV2o_decorp_p9
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Date Modified
15 Nov. 2016, KF; 30 October 2017, ljk
3 January 2023, rb
3 January 2023, rb
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