OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS 

 After all, we have here a very real fact, namely, that we 

 live in a world in which flowers are more beautiful and more 

 numerous than formerly; and perhaps we have the right to 

 add that the thoughts of men are now more just and greedier 

 of truth. The smallest joy gained and the smallest grief con- 

 quered should be marked in the Book of Humanity. It be- 

 hoves us not to lose sight of any of the evidence that we are 

 mastering the nameless powers, that we are beginning to wield 

 some of the laws that govern creation, that we are making 

 our planet our home, that we are adorning our stay and gradu- 

 ally broadening the acreage of happiness and of beautiful life. 



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