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He can destroy faster ; but knows how to repair his injuries sooner. But 
to cease to do evilis to begin to do good; tor Nature only asks man’s 
leave to renew her beneficent growths. Stop the fires on the prairies, 
lighted by the hunter for unknown centuries, and Nature will clothe them 
with forests. Plant with trees, and protect the self sown seeds of the 
forests along the waste lands of the seaboard, and they are born who may 
see them all reforested ; see them also renew a virgin forest soil. We have 
just begun many beginnings. Let them be followed up by many zealous 
co-operators, and our country will exhibit a prosperity, salubrity, and 
beauty never before seen, and in due time will become the dwelling-place 
of millions more human souls, else not to be born; souls to be happy on 
earth, and to people heaven. If this world was worth the making it 
must be man’s duty to make it teem with happy life. 
ADDENDA.—Since reading the above paper, Prof. Lesley has kindly sent 
me two quotations which strongly support the views and purposes of the 
essay read. | DC es a 
I. “The country from the head of St. Croix river [in Wisconsin] to 
Bayfield is covered with drift. . . . not an outcrop for fifty miles. Most 
of the district is destitute of living springs and streams. Numerous 
depressions in the drift are partly filled with water... .. The soil is 
sandy and barren, supporting only a stunted growth of ‘jack’ pines and 
‘scrub oaks.’ Fire has killed the timber over wide areas, on which grass 
was growing, exhibiting before our eyes nature’s simple method of con- 
verting woodland into prairie. The reverse process is just as simple. 
When prairies are no longer swept over by fire, timber springs up, re-con- 
verting prairie into woodland. Grass, with fire as anally, can beat timber. 
Timber can beat grass when it has no fire to fight.’’-—Report of O. W 
Wight in Geology of Wisconsin, p. 76, 1877. 
II. ‘In the whole Kingdom of King Devanampriya Priyadarsin, as also 
in the adjacent countries; .... the Kingdom of Antiochus, the Grecian 
King and his neighbor Kings, the system of caring for the sick, both men 
and cattle, followed “by King D. P. has been everywhere brought into 
practice. Wherever useful healing herbs for man and beast failed, these 
‘he introduced and cultivated. Wherever roots and fruits were wanting, 
these he introduced and cultivated. He caused also wells to be dug and 
trees to be planted on the roads for the benefit of cattle.’’— Dr. Kern’s 
translation of the Girnar rock inscription in India, second section of the 
tablet. See p. 193 and Plate 1. Jour. R. Asiat.§. Vol. [X. part 2. July, 1877. 
What Christian nation has provided so humanely for traveling man and 
beast? The purpose of trees and shade as above advocated is immediately 
practicable and beneficent. Let us also open the roadside springs and 
wells, and furnish the cup for cold water; and maintain the supply of 
medicinal herbs, roots and barks. This we will begin in the Park as soon 
as the Pharmaceutists will lend their efficient co-operation. Except in the 
hospitals of our large cities, and county poorhouses, the sick wayfarer 
must depend upon humane tavern landlords and benevolent citizens, who 
seldom fail in Christian charity. But may God and man save us from Tramps. 
