now, for I am escaping the limitations of 

 my own personality, with its narrow ex- 

 perience and its short memory, and 1 am 

 entering into consciousness of a race life 

 and dimly surveying the records of a race 

 memory. 



At last the road turns abruptly from 

 the hillside to which it clings with the 

 loyalty of ancient association, and, running 

 straight across a low-lying meadow, enters 

 a deep wood, and vanishes from sight for 

 many a mile. It is with a deep sigh of 

 content that 1 find myself once more in 

 that dim wonderland whose mysteries I 

 would not fathom if I could. I am at one 

 with the genius of the place; I have es- 

 caped customs, habits, conventions of every 

 sort ; the false growths of civilisation have 

 fallen away and left me in primitive strength 

 and freshness once more ; my own person- 

 ality disappears, and I am breathing the 

 universal life ; I have gone back to the far 

 beginning of things, and I am once more 

 in that dim, rich moment of primeval con- 

 tact with Nature out of which all mythol- 



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