September 



the ground, feeling a brotherhood in the trees, 

 and a subtle kinship to everything in the heav- 

 ens above, in the earth beneath, and in the waters 

 under the earth. Pedestrianism is a method of 

 humbling one's self that quickly brings its own 

 peculiar exaltation, thereby ''the eyes of our 

 understanding being opened," and our ears un- 

 stopped. In this connection that gorgeous 

 floral display is worthy of mention, that every 

 summer meets the eye at the Pond, hidden 

 among trees and shrubbery — a floating acre of 

 Indian scarlet water-lilies {Meluifibium speci- 

 osum), some of whose blossoms are nearly a foot 

 in diameter, with peltate '' pads " from one to 

 two feet across. 



One is sometimes in that mood wherein science 

 is simply an abomination unto him — when he is 

 fully content to enjoy the beauty of what he sees 

 and hears, without asking or caring for its cause, 

 or effect, or relationship — itself its own sufficient 

 reason. Such a person feels that six days are 

 sufficient for the secularities of knowledge, he 

 must have a seventh wherein, withuninterroga- 

 tive contentment, he may luxuriate in that which 

 satisfies purely the sentiment. Some people seem 

 able to see only the scientific side of beauty; 

 and when looking at a flower, its color, form, 



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