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music, and how their songs and their lit 

 erature are permeated by the impressions 

 derived from nature, and how strong a love 

 for it they manifest ! Some of us prefer to 

 take these things diluted with a smaller 

 amount of beer, and prefer the scent of 

 roses alone, rather than mixed with those 

 of tobacco and other things. But even these 

 are more like the odour of sanctity than some 

 things which are characteristic of our urban 

 life. 



On a festival, the German instinctively 

 seeks the country and the woodlands. 

 The Schwarzwald and the Bohmerwald, 

 and the Tliiiringerwald maintain their 

 hold upon him, whether he comes from 

 their shadowy recesses or not. And it is 

 fair to believe that his homely wholesome 

 family life has some not unnatural connec 

 tion with this life in the open air, and 

 among our brothers who draw their sus 

 tenance directly from the soil. 



The proper study of mankind is man. 

 Yes, doubtless. And the first claimant on 

 our aid and bounty, if we have them to 

 give, is likewise man. But there are many 

 ways in which this study can be made 

 and this aid extended, and it is not unfair 

 to assume that something can be gained 



