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throw his whole heart into the enjoyment of Natural 

 Beauty in a way that would have been utterly im- 

 possible if he had had to come to the conclusion 

 that Nature cared only for the brutally fittest, wholly 

 irrespective of their worth, or that Nature was at 

 the mercy of chance and had no wish, intention, 

 or power to make good prevail over ill. And with 

 his instinctive love of Natural Beauty thus con- 

 firmed and strengthened by this testing of his 

 instinct against what cool reasoning on the facts 

 revealed by observation in the forest had to say 

 about it, he can with lightened heart search still 

 further into Nature, and see her in higher, wider, 

 deeper aspects than the forest alone can disclose. 



