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the vines by the wall. A toad dozes under a 

 bench : he will come out to-night. 



It is all a drama, intense, complex, ever 

 moving, always dying, always re-born. I see a 

 thousand actors moving in and out, always 

 going, always coming. I am part of the drama; 

 I break the earth ; I destroy this plant and that, 

 as if I were the arbiter of life and death. I 

 sow the seed. I see the tender things come 

 up and I feel as if I had created something new 

 and fine, that had not been seen on the earth 

 before ; and I have a new joy as deep and as 

 intangible as the joy of religion. 



THE OUTLOOK FOR THE COUNTRY 



If a careful outlook to nature is much to be 

 desired, and if farming occupations are the 

 nature-occupations, then it follows that the con- 

 dition of farm life is of much concern to every 

 person who recognizes his responsibilities in the 

 world. 



The country must hold its place in society 

 through an elevation of its ideals, and this can 

 come about only by means of education. There 



