FLOWERS AND FOLKS. 
“To know one element, explore another, 
And in the second reappears the first.” 
EMERSON. 
Every order of intelligent beings natu- 
rally separates the world into two classes, — 
itself and the remainder. Birds, for in- 
stance, have no doubt a feeling, more or less 
clearly defined, which, if it were translated 
into human speech, might read, “ Birds and 
nature.”’ We, in our turn, say, “ Man and 
nature.”” But such distinctions, useful as 
they are, and therefore admissible, are none 
the less arbitrary and liable to mislead. 
Birds and men are alike parts of nature, 
having many things in common not only 
with each other, but with every form of an- 
imate existence. The world is not a patch- 
work, though never so cunningly put to- 
gether, but a garment woven throughout. 
The importance of this truth, its far-reach- 
ing and many-sided significance, is even yet 
