THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL 



up there, but he stays by it be- 

 cause he knows that the men who 

 built the trail must have had rea- 

 sons for their course. And so he 

 follows the trail and sees that it is 

 in no way injured or obscured. 

 More than that, he improves the 

 trail. He realizes that no trail is 

 perfect. He puts a log across a 

 bad stream crossing, and if a tree 

 has fallen across the trail he chops 

 a way through it or around it. 

 He may even, with better survey- 

 ing instruments and with dynamite 

 to blast the rocks, find and build 

 a shorter and better grade. But 

 through it all the old trail is the 

 basis on which he works, and he 

 never forgets or despises the men 

 who made it. 



Happy the man who follows 



this parable in regard to human 



ideas and institutions; who seeks 



not to destroy but to fulfil; who, 



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