And, as she spoke, I had a sudden vision of broad spaces, virgin tracts of forests, untrodden lands — and a realization of what freedom would mean to such a nature as Mary Cavendish.
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct action of external conditions, and so forth.
Each laborious step which galls his wounded feet in rough and untrodden paths pours a drop of balm into his troubled soul, and the journey of many a weary day brings a nightly relief to his anguished heart.