APPENDIX D. 407 



Indeed, it is evident that proper occupation of Time, ac- 

 quaintance with Nature, education of Mind, exercise of Body, 

 skilful Labor, and adequate Kiches, are each and all in them- 

 selves, and collectively, essential to our welfare, and he who is 

 best in each of these respects is most wealthy. In a tabular 

 view, 



Occupation of Time. 



Acquaintance with Nature. 



Essential to our welfare are 



Skilful Labor. 



Adequate Riches. 



Increase of Wealth. 



This increase of wealth is not only to arise from the increase 

 of riches, but, and chiefly, from the increased enjoyments afford- 

 ed by Nature ; for while each breath yields a rich enjoyment to 

 mere animal health, and while the gorgeous splendors of the 

 sky, the sublime beauty of the rainbow, the roar of the ocean, 

 or even the pensive quiet of solitude, may awaken a measure of 

 delight in the latent soul of the untutored savage, it is only to 

 the cultivated intellect, the fully developed mind through a 

 properly exercised body, that Nature becomes fully potential ; it 

 is only such who can fully realize, w T ith the poet, 



" There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 

 There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 

 There is society where none intrudes, 

 By the deep sea, and music in its roar. 

 I love not man the less, but nature more ; 

 For these our interviews, in which I steal 

 From all I may be or have been before, 

 To mingle with the universe and feel 

 What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal." 



For there is not only all the high delight experienced by the 

 influences of nature pouring in upon a finely cultivated mind, 

 but also the reaction of the awakened mind searching with its 

 philosophy into the hidden mysteries that underlie the marvels 

 that so perplex or affright the ignorant. 



" The flow of riches, though desired, 

 Life's real goods, if well acquired, 

 Unjustly let me never gain, 

 Lest vengeance follow in their train ; 

 For never, sure, shall Solon change 

 His truth for wealth's most easy range, 

 For vice, though plenty fills her horn, 

 And virtue sinks in want and scorn ; 

 Since virtue lives and truth shall stand, 

 While pelf etudes the grasping hand." 



Elements of Wealth, Bestowed, Obtained. 



It is noticeable that some of the elements of Wealth are be- 

 stowed, and some the result of effort ; accordingly the six can 

 be arranged in two groups, in each of which there will be four, 

 which is curious. 



Time and Nature, equally bestowed on all, which we can 



