QUERCUS ALBA 



Similarly every incident of its past 

 career you can yourself see dupli- 

 cated separately in other trees liv- 

 ing amid like conditions in other 

 sections of forest. There is no 

 imagination required in telling a 

 tale of Nature. Her laws are un- 

 changeable ; and a given result in- 

 evitably presupposes certain events 

 having occurred. They cannot be 

 fancied or falsified, or the result 

 would give the romanticist the lie. 



They simply were; and the obvious 



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