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ahead, and putting forth on all sides, you did an immense 

 business, giving employment to hundreds of hands. And 

 now, having acquired both property and influence in the 

 community, you calmly contemplate the struggles of others 

 now situated as you were years ago. Good deeds done 

 under such circumstances will be to those whom you be- 

 friend, like the morning star to the storm-tossed mariner, 

 inexpressibly beautiful and cheering; for they will en- 

 courage in them the hope of approaching day, and they 

 will assuredly shine down on you cheerily and brightly as 

 the evening star at the sunset of your life. 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE RHYTHMS OR OSCILLATIONS OF GROWTH IN THE DEVELOP- 

 MENT OF TREES ARE DURABLY IMPRESSED ON THEIR ORGANISM, 

 AND THE ORGANIZATION OF MAN IS EQUALLY AS SUSCEPTIBLE 



OF RECEIVING AND RETAINING IMPRESSIONS FROM WITHOUT. 



* 



IN the consideration of a tree, we have to deal, not with 

 a product of crystallization, such as the lead tree, or the 

 dendritic formations on a frozen window, but with matter 

 living and organized. Now, although it may be difficult 

 to point out the bounding line between the animal and 

 vegetable kingdom, because a decided characteristic dis- 

 tinction between the animal and vegetable cell is wanted, 

 yet the limit between living and lifeless Nature is easily 

 defined. In living Nature, THE CELL predominates as the 

 fundamental organ ; its absence characterizes the lifeless 

 creation, whose fundamental form is THE CRYSTAL. 



The crystal grows by additions of matter to its surface ; 

 the cells grows from within, and not from without. The 

 crystal, throughout its entire mass, consists of the same 

 chemical principles, arranged in the same manner, and in 

 the same proportions ; but the walls of the cell and its 

 fluid contents are chemically different from each other. 

 The parts of the crystal, held together by the power of 

 mutual attraction, remain at rest, side by side, without 



