OF RICHARD JEFFERIES 



COULD we employ the ocean as 

 a lens, and force truth from the 

 sky, even then I think there 

 would be much more beyond. — 'The 

 Story of my Heart.' 



BEFORE a bridge is built, or a 

 structure erected, or an inter- 

 oceanic canal made, there must 

 be a plan, and before a plan the thought 

 in the mind. So that it is correct to say 

 the mind bores tunnels through the 

 mountains, bridges the rivers, and con- 

 structs the engines which are the pride 

 of the world.—' The Story of my Heart.' 



SO great is the value of the soul 

 that it seems to me, if the soul 

 lived and received its aspirations 

 it would not matter if the material uni- 

 verse melted away as snow. Many turn 

 aside the instant the soul is mentioned, 

 and I sympathise with them in one 



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