A JOURNEY TO NATURE 



theories with your nonsense, and. after neorlv a 

 veor or discipline and moral purgation, to tell me 

 that it is all ror nothing, and you haven t learned 

 i bi.essed duns, \\nat have you dene killed 

 your rival : ^ 



^Yes. What else could a man do who has 

 been raking the nature cure so long, and had all 

 his natural energies at high tension, thanks to 

 you. ? Do vou know who the man is : 



~ How the devil should I know, or why should 

 I care : &quot; 



~ It is the vacmg wheelwright who drove us over 

 from Slocum ; that trogiodvte or&quot; the sequestered 

 hamlet has been engaged to the nymph of the air 

 all along. The incommensurable is to marry the 

 unessential. Tne ideal ends in a negation, and 

 spirituality drops to spokeshaves. Daphne re 

 verts to potatoes. Nature breaks on 7 in a chasm. 

 It must be plain to you that, with all your teach 

 ings fresh in mv mind. I could not stand still and 

 see this sacrilege without reeling that the ongoing, 

 uplifting, and inspiring nature of things had been 

 threatened, and that it was the dutv or the purged 

 mar: to become a rescuer, a champion, an avenge-. 

 a restorer.&quot; 



The Doctor was potindins the list of one hand 



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into the palm of the ether impatiently. 



&quot; Ongoing and uplirting pickles ! he said. I 

 h.id a mint hope that, if you became intimate with 

 the ordained ongoing of some things, vou would 

 learn not to stick your Wall Street impertinence 

 in between them. If you have not learned that 



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