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bloom in very slight soil into a wild- 

 wood grace and beauty ; yet, the world 

 through, they lack that wealth of 

 charms, that tropic affluence of both 

 person and .mind, which higher and more 

 stimulating culture brings : the pas 

 sion as well as the- soul glowing in the 

 Cloth-of-Gold rose. Neither persons nor 

 plants are ever fully themselves until 

 they are cultivated to their highest. I, 

 for one, have no fear that society will be 

 too much enriched. The only question 

 is about keeping down the weeds ; and 

 I have learned by experience, that we 

 need new sorts of hoes, and more dis 

 position to use them. 



Moral Deduction. The difference be 

 tween soil and society is evident. We 

 bury decay in the earth ; we plant in it 

 the perishing ; we feed it with offensive 

 refuse : but nothing grows out of it that 

 is not clean ; it gives us back life and 



