620 FOREST CULTURE AND 
trace, here above all, how life, embodied in endless 
forms, is passing through its allotted worldly stages, 
finally only to perish ; and so he must also learn to 
resign himself, with all else that is mortal, to a higher 
will. 
“Though wrapt in clouds, yet still and still 
The steadfast sun th’ empyrean sways; 
- There still prevails a holy will— 
*Tis not blind chance the world obeys. 
The eye eternal, pure and clear, 
Regards and holds all beings dear. 
For thee, too, will the Father care, 
Whose faith and soulin Him confide, 
And though the last of days it were, 
He calls thee early to His side; 
His eye eternal, pure and clear, 
Thee, too, regards and holds thee dear.” 
GLADSTONE, FROM KIND. 
Though the true destiny of a botanic garden should 
be maintained then with some rigor, be it far from us 
to withdraw those sources of pure pleasure which sci- 
entific refinement offers there to a stili higher degree. 
Indeed, if ever we attempted to restrict an institution 
of this kind to absolutely utilitarian purposes, we as- 
suredly would find the separation or exclusion of sim- 
ple means of enjoyment a total impossibility. The 
avenues, formed of timber-trees, as forest representa- 
tives from wide distances, will afford to the strolling 
visitor no less of cool umbrageous expanse than if 
raised for his recreation only. The coloring changes 
of the vegetation throughout the seasons, or the va- 
ried periodic hues of foliage and blossoms, are assur- 
edly not diminished in their impressiveness because 
the perhaps tyrannic sway of fashionable predilections, 
or of tastes subject to endless dispute, are left unobey- 
ed in the exercise of the free judgment of science. 
When thus in youthful freshness the Spring unfolds 
