88 Outlook to Nature 



The reverential attitude is the result of our 

 feeling toward the materials of life, toward 

 the little things and the common things that 

 meet us hour by hour. One stimulates it in 

 himself only as he feels that the earth is holy 

 and that all the things that come out of the 

 earth are holy. A man may conquer the earth 

 and yet feel that he has taken no advantage 

 that does not belong to him because he is a 

 man, and may hold the highest reverence for 

 the rights and welfare of everything that exists. 

 Such an attitude of mind as inclines one 

 to pause to listen to a bird's song (even 

 though he may not stop his work), to give 

 more than a passing glance to a potato plant, 

 to inhale some deeper draught of the fragrance 

 of new-plowed land, will produce in him a 

 sweet seriousness that will stand him in good 

 stead in stress and strain, and will much rein- 

 force his spiritual stability. 



The point of attack. 



If these remarks mean anything, it is that we 

 need new country institutions developed from 



