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them the more from the intellectual relaxation, the mental 

 quiet and repose, which we find among them. We feel that 

 we are resting, that the process of recuperation, intellec- 

 tual as well as physical, is going on within us. We can 

 almost trace its progress, and we feel that the time spent by 

 us here is full of profit as well as pleasure. . At all events, it 

 is so with me, and if duty to others, whose interests it is my 

 business to serve, did not demand my return, I could enjoy 

 another month here with unabated pleasure." 



" You have left me little," I replied, " to add to what you 

 have already said, in expressing the sources of my enjoy- 

 ment among these beautiful lakes. Fishing and hunting, 

 considered in the abstract, are things I care but little about. 

 They are pleasant enough in their way, but what brings me 

 here is the strong desire as well as necessity for the repose 

 of which you speak. There is a luxury in intellectual rest, 

 when the brain is wearied with protracted toil, which far 

 surpasses the mere animal enjoyment which follows relaxa- 

 tion from physical labor. That rest I cannot find ic society. 

 I must seek it among wild and primeval solitudes, where I 

 can be alone with nature in her unadorned simplicity, away 

 from the barbarisms, so to speak, of civilization, where I 

 can act and talk and think as a natural, and n>t an artifi- 

 cial man, where I can be off my guard, and n*ee from the 

 weight of that armor which the conventionalites of life, the 

 captious espionage of the world compels us to wear, un- 

 tempted by the thousand enticements whicl society every- 

 where presents to lure us into unrest." 



