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Show 561. has been sadly neglected for many generations," he continued to insist that they were "not a whit more natural in their lives than we civilized whites." The author of First Summer insisted that young Muir accept his membership in white civilization, and argued that all men sell their souls for food to some extent. He never allowed young Muir to escape from this dilemma. HUMAN ALTERNATIVES If Muir never wished to be a shepherd or a sheep owner, but found that he could not become an Indian, there was one other human alternative, that of the tourist, the visitor to Nature who came from the city. When he saw one party of travellers early in the summer, he was surprised at their inattentive attitude toward Nature, but ,hoped that in the Valley they would "forget themselves and become devout." If these visitors seemed out of place and a disturbance in the woods, "What," Muir wondered, "may we say of ourselves and our flock?" When Dr. Butler, a representative from Muir's past life at the University of Wisconsin, arrived in the Valley, the young man mysteriously sensed his presence and came down into the world of hotels and tourists. Brought by a strange telepathy, Muir wondered why he was called to the Valley and to Butler. He puzzled over this singular event in a section of his autobiographical notes, and decided that such "mysterious |