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20 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
physiological sciences which it illustrates on the large
scale, should be possessed by everybody of every station
and degree, is simply a matter of human necessity.
Man cannot exist without it: a digesting,
blood-circulating biped may; but a human being cannot exercise
his noblest faculties if the image of his Creator be not
stamped upon his soul with the impress made by a
knowledge of his Creator’s works. We see design,
and we argue intention, from the fitness of the tiger’s
claws to seize upon his prey; the hoof and teeth and
stomach of the cow show that the green herbage is
her destined food; and so in the universal and exquisite
adaptation of all the harmonious forces and phenomena
of creation to the mental faculties of man, do we
witness the proof that we are specially designed to study
them, as surely as a watch is designed to indicate the
time; and, therefore, to neglect such a study is to
oppose the will of God in rebellious indolence.
Besides following the guidance of Murray’s
Handbook, I walked through most of the smaller streets of
the town, and did not find any low squalid slums, such
as exist in all our large towns and most of those on the
Continent. The poorest streets are composed of clean,
comfortable-looking, wooden houses; and the poorest
people have a well-conducted, respectable manner and
appearance. There are no blackguards visible: no
people that any reasonable person of any rank could
object to sit amongst in a railway carriage. The
windows of the humblest houses are scrupulously clean,
and filled with bright flowers in earthen pots, carefully
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