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surable array of attractive objects ? First as a vast ex- 

 panse of living, normal, and beautiful forms, it shall address 

 the senses of the physical man, and by healing sympathies and 

 recuperative vitalizing forces, invite him to a larger, more 

 genial, and healthful world of sensuous emotion. Secondly, 

 it shall, by a purer, more subtle, ethereal and Divine force, 

 penetrate the depths of his spiritual nature, and by sentiment 

 and thought, intelligence and love, magnify and ennoble his 

 soul. 



The forest, the heath, the flower, the fern, the moss, the 

 lichen, form thus for man a recipe of health, a concert of 

 harmony, a lesson of wisdom, a transport of beauty. 



