the great tree trunks. There being none of the 

 external and artificial excitations which constantly 

 play on the mind in cities, a tremendous force of 

 complex suggestion is removed, and the thought 

 naturally works more simply and directly. The 

 multiplicity of desires lies dormant. Everything 

 conspires for simplicity, as in the city all things 

 are in conspiracy against it. 



A certain resourcefulness is the portion of the 

 woodsman, a little of the independence and dex- 

 terity of the Indian, but more than this, an intel- 

 ledlual and spiritual resourcefulness. It devolves 

 upon him in the solitude to become acquainted 

 with himself to be his own friend. A sturdy 

 content grows out of this association with the 

 forest. He does not require to be amused. It does 

 not necessarily promote an unsocial state, but it 

 does make him independent of much society. 

 Thus the forest has its finer or spiritual influence. 



Even greater is the suggestion of primitive 

 vigor. The display of vast rude strength induces 

 a robust state of mind quite as readily as the open- 

 air life gives appetite and sleep. With the savage 

 this influence is dired: and may almost be classed 

 as instindt. With the refined and cultivated mind 



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