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mountain is a febrifuge." Not in this 

 study can we take up the full psychology 

 of the matter; it is worth while to say, 

 though, that, to a responsive spirit, the 

 mountains supply a needed symbol of re- 

 pose. In all the turmoil of the world, in 

 all the deadly struggle for existence, in 

 all the noise of the machinery of our civili- 

 zation, in all the welter of animal passion, 

 they have what Professor Van Dyke 

 happily terms "their aloofness" Thus, 

 for weary men, the mountains may be- 

 come, sometimes do become, precious 

 places of peace, Nature's finest material 

 tokens of that "peace of God which 

 passeth all understanding." 



