I INTRODUCTION Ses! 
intensified the emotions, as all keen percep- 
tion of beauty does, but it did not add to 
their joyousness. We speak of the pleasure 
which nature and art and music give us; 
what we really mean is that our whole be- 
ing is quickened by the uplifting of the veil. 
~ Something passes into us which makes our 
sorrows more sorrowful, our joys more joyful, 
—our whole life more vivid. So it was with 
him. The long solitary wanderings over the 
hills, and the beautiful moonlight nights on 
the lake served to make the shadows seem 
darker that were brooding over his home.” 
But surely to most of us Nature when 
sombre, or even gloomy, is soothing and con- 
soling; when bright and beautiful, not only 
raises the spirits, but inspires and elevates 
our whole being — 
Nature never did betray 
The heart that loved her; ’tis her privilege, 
Through all the years of this our life, to lead 
From joy to joy: for she can so inform 
The mind that is within us, so impress 
With quietness and beauty, and so feed 
With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, 
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, 
