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our own priceless individuality will gain, not 

 lose, thereby ? 



Or shall we make our plea to an "art im- 

 pulse"? No? Is the world already artificial 

 enough? Not by half, although it is full, 

 crammed, with the things the long-vanished 

 dead have done for it in every art, from cameos 

 to shade-trees; done for it because it was al- 

 ready so fair that, live long or die soon, they 

 could not hold themselves back from making it 

 fairer. 



Yet, all that aside, is not this concerted gar- 

 dening precisely such a work that young man- 

 hood and womanhood, however artificial or un- 

 artificial, anywhere, everywhere. Old World or 

 newest frontier, ought to take to naturally? 

 Adam and Eve did, and they — but we have 

 squeezed Adam and Eve dry enough. 



Patriotism ! Can you imagine a young man 

 or woman without it? And if you are young 

 and a lover of your country, do you not love 

 its physical aspects, *'its rocks and rills, its 

 woods and templed hills"? And if so, do you 

 love only those parts of it which you never see 



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