44 PROLEGOMENON. 



grandeur of her face and pervert the integrity and sym- 

 metry of her meaning. Thus Nature exists for the health 

 and rectitude of both body and soul, for the highest as well 

 as the lowest, for time and forever. Mere utilitarianism, 

 then, cannot be all. The world will not resolve itself into 

 a chapter of economics alone. This organic globe, travel- 

 ling through azure spaces, related with perfect harmony 

 and eternal laws to solar and sidereal systems, is certainly 

 too richly furnished with forms of beauty, with elements 

 of grace and light, of joy and sweetness, to have been 

 designed for a kitchen or barn, a warehouse or machine- 

 shop. 



Ever in the din and clangor of its mechanisms, the 

 monotonous homeliness of its utilities, steal in the far-off 

 symphonies of aprofounder world of attractions, "a deeper 

 music, whose tones are ideas," a world made aromatic and 

 divine by the Beautiful as well as great and glorious by 

 the Good and the True. Whilst the Mountain invigorates and 

 regenerates the outward man by its healthful powers and 

 restorative influences upon the body, it can also feed the 

 inner man, and give vitality to the streams and currents of 

 spiritual forces that descend from the Infinite to the soul, 

 and by sanity and reason nourish and save them both. The 

 influence of Nature, aside from economics, is to love and 

 worship, through veneration of what is high and holy in 

 the universe, as well as to bless by the affections through 

 objects of sweetness and purity in the sphere of taste and 

 beauty. As the world stands an exponent of the Eternal 

 Mind, " whom Nature veils, clothes, and manifests," now 

 " vocal in a tone, now visible in a gleam," the Mountain 

 still must be the highest thought, the strongest will, the 

 deepest love. Its promises, then, come a song of joy, with 

 a voice of hope and a word of peace for all the children 

 of men. 



Here the overworked artist and artisan from the con- 

 fined air of the city, the care-eaten merchant, the charred 

 and lacerated banker, the wan and feverish man of books 



