ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



things to those who would only ask for 

 them. 



At last they came, those other askers, 

 those who began to see the whole tree, the 

 whole forest, and not its timber alone. 

 Among them were the poets of each genera- 

 tion, a small band at first, but continually 

 increasing till the eyes of many were 

 anointed and they too saw that the tree was 

 made not for a servant only, but as a com- 

 panion and friend to man, destined to grow 

 in influence, and give him inspiration and 

 vision. In a word, men began to worship the 

 soul of the tree as well as its body, an at- 

 titude in harmony with the modern watch- 

 word of marriage, when it is a mating above 

 that of the lower animals. 



As in the relationship between members 

 of the human race too it was discovered that 

 the comradeship and influence of different 

 trees and different forests were infinitely 

 varied. No two trees produce the same 

 effect upon us. Neither do any two forests 

 weave the same spell over us. Yet from 

 every tree virtue of some sort goes out to the 



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