New Walks in Old Ways 



any other weed that formerly was "out 

 of place," and you now find him good. 



We are constantly extending the list 

 of plants being transferred from the 

 "weed" to the utilitarian list; so 

 rapidly, in fact, that it is not especially 

 rash to predict that, as our knowledge 

 takes on a broader sweep, we shall 

 ultimately find that every thing, which 

 grows has its uses a rightful place in 

 the world. Then, after we have 

 worked our way laboriously through 

 the centuries to that point of tolera- 

 tion and appreciation in respect to the 

 vegetable kingdom, we may gradually 

 extend our studies to the animal crea- 

 tion, and to our own kind, and find, 

 as the millennium is approached, good 

 in everything and everybody. 



I am not an avowed "Scientist." In 

 fact, I scoff at times at certain of their 

 contentions; but I have been told 

 that a trend of thought towards belief 

 in the Universal Good leads me danger- 

 ously near to the fold in which many 

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