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the world seems to the child that plays about 

 his mother's knee ; and death to those who 

 believed that in dreams they saw living those 

 whose bodies they had seen lie motionless and 

 then decay, could have had no more terror than 

 to the child there is terror in going to sleep at 

 night knowing that his mother will wake him 

 in the morning. Nay, there are still races 

 whose childish eyes see the universe thus, and 

 whose childish minds thus think of death. 

 And it may be that, essentially, the children 

 are right. 



In our first chapter, hills, buildings and trees 

 have been compared as objects towards which 

 we come to feel affection although we know 

 that they can have none for us in return. Let 

 us associate them again for another purpose. 

 Early belief, of which the form most familiar 

 to us is the biblical story of the garden of Eden, 

 placed the progenitors of the human race in a 

 walled garden or park. The word paradise 

 signifies such an enclosure. There has been 

 much discussion as to where exactly this garden 

 was supposed to have been. Into this we 

 need not enter. It is sufficient to say that it 

 was somewhere in the mountainous country of 



