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certain that such trusts cannot be safely reposed in the 

 state or national governments, or in the hands of trustees 

 chosen for the particular function. The only authorities 

 which commend themselves for the execution of such a pur- 

 pose are those of our universities. In these institutions we 

 find boards which are chosen for the attainment of intel- 

 lectual ends ; in certain cases the choice is made by the vote 

 of an intelligent body of alumni, or in other ways guarded by 

 that body, so that the chance of lapse in the quality of the 

 contract is reduced to a minimum. Several instances could 

 be given showing that such trusts, even when they do not 

 directly pertain to the teaching work of these institutions, 

 have been long and faithfully maintained. We may there- 

 fore look upon our universities as the natural repositories of 

 confidences which pertain to the continuous intellectual work 

 of man. There is no other kind of association where inter- 

 ests of the sort which would have to be cared for in the 

 reservations of the wilderness are so likely to receive contin- 

 uous attention. In these homes of learning, while business 

 considerations enter, personal greed is naturally absent. 



The method which may be chosen for the control of 

 wilderness reservations, though a problem of much impor- 

 tance, is of course secondary to the matter of their establish- 

 ment. This work should at once command the attention of 

 those persons who are of the foresightful class who see beyond 

 the interests of the day, and take account of the needs of the 

 generations to come. Such men will do well to begin the 

 work by organizing a society which shall endeavor to arouse 

 public attention to the destructive effects of man's occu- 

 pation of the earth by his civilizations. The people need 

 to be taught the true meaning of the indigenous life in 



