12 INTRODUCTION. 



intellectual power may readily comprehend the principles 

 inculcated in this book, and see their applicability as 

 guiding rules for the judicious and happy management of 

 each day's duties. Reader, whoever you are, may this book 

 prove to you a friend, may you be induced by its pages to 

 look on the Tree with a new interest ; and obtaining from its 

 noble form a clear and truthful view of your own position 

 and duty in life, become, by the perusal of this volume, a 

 wiser man and a better citizen. 



