A DUTY TO POSTERITY xxv 



Is the nation going to see to it that this work is carried 

 out ? And may the nation hope that that Great 

 Society which soon after its inauguration, as I im- 

 plicitly believe and as Evelyn put it, awoke in the 

 country the spirit for planting and thereby saved us 

 from invasion in the days of Napoleon, will come to its 

 aid once again and by its powerful support help us to 

 secure that area of home woods which present-day 

 necessities demand, which a full utilisation of our 

 national resources and the campaign for thrift in all 

 departments of life equally demand, and which our 

 posterity is likely to so sorely need. 



