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law or combination of laws has acted in the particular case to 

 produce a result which takes on the appearance of anarchy 

 but is not. Were all oaks sprung from exactly similar acorns 

 and subjected to precisely similar conditions, then would all 

 oaks be as like as "The twinnes (twins) of Hippocrates, who 

 were as lyke as one pease is to another. ' ' Now Nature knows 

 nothing whatever of mutiny nor has she a single disobedient 

 subject throughout her realm. What she promises, that she 

 will most surely perform ; and in this has ever lain the great 

 hope which inspires every gardener or tiller of the soil. 

 How should we plant except by hope? Faith is a happy and j 

 religious state which transcends mere demonstration. Faith 

 is given to some but not to all. Hope on the contrary 

 "springs eternal in the human breast," as universal as 

 Nature's fulfilment of her promises. The world would have 

 starved long before it had gained a co-ordinated faith had not 

 Nature, or Divine Providence shown a bountiful succession of 

 sun and rain, of nutriment in the soil and life in the air and 

 stood always ready with that vital something which we call a 

 germ and which is mysteriously tucked away in every seed. 

 In this is the hope in which every man is my brother, whether 

 he have a higher faith or not ; and this trustful expectancy 

 in the powers unknown has made good gardeners of many 

 materialistic and most unreligious peoples. It may not be 

 faith, but It is indeed an auspicious hope. \\/) 



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