CHAPTER XIV. 



ON THE HEIGHTS. 



NATURE creates days for special insights and 

 outlooks days whose distinctive qualities make 

 them part of the universal revelation of the year. 

 There are days for the deep woods, and for the 

 open fields ; days for the beach, and for the inland 

 river ; days for solitary musing beside some se 

 cluded rivulet, and days for the companionship 

 and movement of the highways. Each day is 

 fitted by some subtle magic of adaptation to the 

 place and the aspect of nature which it is to, reveal 

 with a clearness denied to other hours. / There 

 came such a day not long ago to me ; a day of 

 tonic atmosphere clear, cloudless, inspiring ;(there 

 was no audible invitation in the air, but I knew by 

 some instinct that the day and the mountains were 

 parts of one complete whole. The morning itself 

 was a new birth of nature, full of promise and 

 prophecy ; one of those hours in which only the 

 greatest and noblest things are credible, in which 

 one rejects unfaith and doubt and all lesser and 

 meaner things as dreams of a night from which 

 there has come an eternal awakening ; a day such 

 as Emerson had in thought when he wrote : &quot; The 

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