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The Ottawa Naturalist. 



[January 



when the individual Culture is united with universal Nature : 

 '' My Father worketh hitherto and 1 work." Our minds are en- 

 larged in the ratio in which our conception of our environment is 

 enlarged. What we get from Nature depends upon our attitude 

 towards her. The character of our interpretations will be in pro- 

 portion to our power of interpretation. The amount we take 

 from Nature cannot exceed the amount we take to her. 



" Is Nature all so beautiful? 



The human feeling' makes it so. 

 The sounds we love, the flowers we cull 

 Are hallowed with man's joy or woe." 



A child who has been trained to care for plants and animals 

 will develop a generous sympathy for all living things. Harmony 

 and good-fellowship will characterize his intercourse with his 

 playmates while he is young and with his fellow-citizens when he 

 becomes older. A student of Nature becomes one of Nature's 

 gentlemen. 



"The slowly maturing fruit of a silent feeding of the soul 

 upon nourishing ideas " will be evidenced in the character of him 

 who has an intelligent appreciation of the true, the beautiful, and 

 the good in Nature. Who better than he can feel sentiments such 

 as that expressed by Adelaide Proctor ? 



" My God, I thank Thee, who hast made 



The earth so bright,^ 

 So full of splendor and of joy, 



Beauty and light, 

 So many g-lorious things are here 



Noble and rig-ht." 



