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leave his fellows, very good to forget how to make or spend 
money. ‘That man is unhuman who thinks of his income or 
his outgo above the snow-line or in the depths of a Colorado 
canyon. It is as if the pageant of earth’s history has left 
to the waste places some of its choicest settings. The great 
playgrounds of the world, — the high Alps, the Yosemite, 
the Selkirks, a Saguenay, — they are in large part desert, 
most providentially useless. And such a wilderness is 
Labrador, a kind of mental and moral sanitarium. The 
keen air of its midsummer is no more bracing to the nerves 
and sinews of the body than its quiet beauty and savage 
grandeur are stimulating to the powers of thought and ap- 
preciation. The beautiful is but the visible splendour of 
the true. The enjoyment of a visit to the coast may con- 
sist not alone in the impressions of the scenery; there may 
be added the deeper pleasure of reading out the history of 
the noble landscapes, the sculptured monuments of ele- 
mental strife and of revolutions in distant ages. 
