EDITORIAL AND GENERAL 



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ing, and there is detailed and infinite 

 mechanism everywhere. I see it under 

 the microscope, I see it in the heavens 

 I see it all around me, and yet my 

 friend claims that the only thing 

 needed is time, time, time, plenty of 

 time, and then perfection and beauty 

 and complicated mechanism can be 

 produced. But my thought returns 

 over the road, and asks. What was the 

 matter with that first farmhouse? If 

 time alone developed and bonified the 

 second farm, why did it destroy the 

 first? The first dilapidated house had 

 even longer time. Evidently time 

 alone here brought dissolution and 

 decay. Think it over, friend. 



A Proposition for Nature Study. 

 Air. Bernard Sexton, Greenwich, 

 Connecticut, issued this call in the last 



silent children of life which dwell in 

 the fields and woods about us, art 

 happy in the possession of intimacies 

 which enrich and ennoble us. 



To be alive in a world of beauty and 

 power and to grow more intimate with 

 it from day to day is to retain the 

 spirit of childhood. The symoathetic 

 observance of the great creative move- 

 ments in the visible world brings to 

 those who have it resources and con- 

 solations as well as positive joys— 



"O ye stars, ye waters, 

 On my heart your mighty charm renew; 

 Still, still let me as I gaze noon you 

 Feel my soul becoming great like you." 



It is mainly with a thought of 

 these hisfh considerations that we are 



MR. SETON'S BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE AGASSIZ GROVE IN ARCADIA. 



of May for a nature class in June. It 

 shows that he has the right spirit. 



The coming of spring brings home to 

 the dullest some sense of the transcen- 

 dent importance of the powers tha, 

 operate in the world of nature. We a:A 

 surrounded by mysteries of beauty ana 

 power. The growth of knowledge does 

 but add to our reverence in the pres 

 ence of the processes of life which a L 

 this season confront us wherever wt 

 turn. Those of us who have madt 

 some slight acquaintance with those 



planning to go into the woods of June 



and make the gro 



and 



things there a subject of study. Our 

 work, however, is to be a really diligent 

 search for truth and beauty, not a mere 

 desultory wandering in the woods. 

 Each member of the party will be 

 equipped with notebook, drawing ma- 

 terial and collecting apparatus. We 

 begin the walks on Monday, June 3d, 

 planning to be abroad on four days of 

 each week dining the month of June, 

 from ten in the morning till four in 



