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"It is wrong to speak of a dead world of matter, if thus the 

 very stars speak to us. No, this is not a soulless universe and 

 Arcturus and Vega, and the farthest nebula are filled with the 

 divine soul and try to draw us upward. And as the stars preach 

 to us, so does the earth ; nature about us uplifts the sore and 

 troubled soul. The woods and the hills say to us, when we come 

 with fevered brow from the daily pursuits, as Emerson puts it: 

 A'Vhy so hot, little man?' Yes, it is nature that tells us that man 

 is more than a dollar-earning or dollar-grasping animal, and 

 that his life may be measured by something else than the capacity 

 for making money, and wasting wealth. Yes, life in the end is 

 only true life when it is close to nature ; a life is only full when 

 it can look in reverence up to the stars and love nature as a di- 

 vine mother. 



"I think it would be a blessed thing to close for the summer 

 not only the school, but the churches, and turn the saints and sin- 

 ners to pasture, if people would only forget themselves there. 

 How it might expand those shriveled souls, the souls of poor 

 over- and under-formed humanity, of pale-faced, gospel-ridden 

 churchgoers, of miserable sermon-crammed sinners, simply to go 

 into the woods and become saints and sinners and reformers and 

 'such like.' Not that we do not need the prophets and preachers, 

 but that it is well to cjet awav from them for a time." 



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