FLOWERS AND FOLKS. 



" To know one element, explore another, 

 And in the second reappears the first." 



EMEKSON. 



EVEKY 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 



