The Biology of Summer · Y90s Database of Ornament

Title

The Biology of Summer

Subject

Summer in comparison to the other seasons, understood biologically and interpreted metaphorically

Description

ARGUMENT.- Life is rhythmic and is punctuated by the seasons. Summer is the crest of the annual wave. I. It is the time of intensest life, when both output and income of energy reach their maximum. The activity of unconscious plant-life is crowned in the flowers, and the growing brilliancy of colour is an index of increasing intensity. II. Conscious animal industry also reaches its climax, both in instinctive and intelligent activity, as in bees and birds. III. But the vigorous intensity of life is interrupted by sleep, weariness, and death. Yet Love Is strongest after all.

Creator

Essay by J. Arthur Thomson

Headpiece by Unknown

Tailpiece by Annie Mackie

Source

The Evergreen Volume 3, p19-27

"The Biology of Summer" at Yellow Nineties 2.0

Publisher

Patrick Geddes & Colleagues

Date

Summer 1896

Rights

Public Domain
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.