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number of walks rather than to introduce too 

 many. But this is one of those nice Httle mat- 

 ters that will almost settle itself, if allowed to 

 do so without forcing. 



For a walk or a path would never exist if 

 there were not, earlier than it, two objects from 

 one of which it was desired to pass to the other. 

 "Where does this lead?" is the instant query 

 whenever and wherever a path meets the ram- 

 bler; which means really what does it lead to, 

 what lies at the end? Or in other words, why is 

 this path? Here if you please, is the whole thing 

 in a nutshell; and we realize at once that there 

 must never be a path or walk in the garden that 

 has no reason — no answer to that why and to 

 that what. It may or it may not go straight 

 to its objective point — its course will be deter- 

 mined by circumstances — but it must have the 

 objective; and it will work always toward it. 



This brings us to a phase of walk layout that 

 has always been to me one of the most interest- 

 ing — a phase which I do not find often recog- 

 nized, even by those who have studied the 

 matter. I can give it no better name than the 

 instinctive direction — and this will need ex- 

 plaining I think. It is just what the name sig- 

 nifies; given, for example, an object in one place 

 to be approached from a point at any distance 



