September 
the ground, feeling a brotherhood in the trees, 
and a subtle kinship to everything in the heav- 
ens above, in the earth beneath, and in the waters 
under the earth. Pedestrianism is a method of 
humbling one’s self that quickly brings its own 
peculiar exaltation, thereby ‘‘ the eyes of our 
understanding being opened,’’ and our ears un- 
stopped. In this connection that gorgeous 
floral display is worthy of mention, that every 
summer meets the eye at the Pond, hidden 
among trees and shrubbery—a floating acre of 
Indian scarlet water-lilies (Alelumbium speci- 
osum), some of whose blossoms are nearly a foot 
in diameter, with peltate ‘‘ pads’’ from one to 
two feet across. 
One is sometimes in that mood wherein sczence 
is simply an abomination unto him—when he is 
fully content to enjoy the beauty of what he sees 
and hears, without asking or caring for its cause, 
or effect, or relationship—itself its own sufficient 
reason. Such a person feels that six days are 
sufficient for the secularities of knowledge, he 
must have a seventh wherein, with uninterroga- 
tive contentment, he may luxuriate in that which 
satisfies purely the sentiment. Some people seem 
able to see only the scientific side of beauty ; 
and when looking at a flower, its color, form, 
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