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fruits of Paradise still growing on that "poison-tree, the 

 world, sweet as the waters of life, love, or the society of 

 beautiful souls, and poetry, whose taste is like the immor- 

 tal juice of Yishnu." In the pursuit of which idea, he 

 invites the race to new fountains of physical redemption, 

 sings a doctorial song of joy to suffering humanity, asserts 

 the claims of the mountain, tells the story of what it is, and 

 what it CAN DO ; vindicates the ways of Providence to man 

 in the shape of pure earth influences, pure water influences, 

 and pure air influences ; proclaiming also the influence of 

 all good things upon man, the high, the low, the simple, the 

 complex, the commonplace, the recondite, every-day-by- 

 the-roadside influences, also the power of the high and 

 divine upon the soul, and, through the soul, upon the 

 miraculous machinery of the body. Advocates likewise 

 the combination of all these influences. To pure mountain 

 air and absolute water would add constant exposure to said 

 air, with boundless swallowings of said water, accompanied 

 by arduous walks in pine-groves, heart and brain intonated 

 and inspired by the many-voiced concerts of the forests, 

 attuned to the " lays the wood-gods sing j" at the same 

 time knowing surely that the catching of mountain trout 

 must develop the capacity of eating and digesting mountain 

 trout, that the hunting and shooting of squirrels must 

 make the heart jump a-la-squirrel, that a gallop on horse- 

 back through the woods will gallop the troubled soul out of 

 the slough of indigestion and despair, and into the gates of 

 light and hope, making the "juices to career through well- 

 strained tubes," and, consequently, to have the Sirens sing. 



Thus, whilst the body should drink health and life from 

 the charmed goblet of nature, could not the soul drink 

 knowledge and wisdom from the fountains of thought ? 



"Would not the excursion of the botanist develop the 

 capacity to digest more perfectly his flowers and mosses ? 

 would not the journey of the geologist enable him to 

 ASSIMILATE more absolutely his rocks and fossils ? would 

 not the mind of the bird-student appropriate his game in H 



