7 UNDER THE TREES. 



fuse themselves through the atmosphere, and de 

 scend at last upon the earth to pour, sooner or later, 

 into the rivers, and be returned whence they came. 

 This subtle commerce, universal throughout the 

 whole domain of nature, animate and inanimate, tells 

 us a common truth with the rose, and corrects the 

 false report of the senses that all things are fixed and 

 isolated. It discloses a communion of matter with 

 matter, a fellowship of continent with continent, an 

 interchange of forces which throws a broad light on 

 things still deeper and more marvelous. It affirms 

 the unity of all created things and predicts the dawn 

 of a new thought of the kinship of races; there is in 

 it the prophecy of new insights into the universal 

 life of men, of fellowships that shall rise to the re 

 cognition of new duties, and of a well-being which 

 shall bind the weakest to the strongest, the poorest 

 to the richest, the lowest to the highest, by the 

 golden bond of a diviner love. 



