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ers in counting house, office or study, whose exhausted brains need 

 healthy relaxation and change of mental food ; and to the tired of 

 muscle from busy workshop and the unceasing noise of wheels, and 

 you young people of abundant leisure, surfeited maybe with works 

 of fiction, whose appetites even for the wildest flights of fancy of a 

 Rider Haggard have become dull, — come to our meetings, and we 

 will show you delightful lanes and avenues of mental thought down 

 which you may pleasantly wander and lose all your weariness and 

 satiety in the pursuit of information upon interesting subjects which 

 become appetizing, stimulating, elevating and refreshing, as you 

 proceed. 



Let me show you something of the men, and ladies too, who 

 will be your associates and will gladly welcome you to their pursuits, 

 hobbies and summer outings. 



Come, and I will introduce you first to members of our geologi- 

 cal section, who know the solid framework of our globe^ and the 

 history ©f every rock and pebble, and who will be pleased when the 

 weather is fine, to permit you to go with them to yonder mountain 

 face, and with small hammers open up the great geologic book, on 

 the rocky leaves of which they will show you the indellible records 

 that tell of the earth's days of infancy, and progress from a fiery, 

 molten mass, when ages upon ages ago, the crust was being deposited 

 in hardening strata, disrupted by titanic forces, and re-deposited. 

 Records that tell of the first appearance of life upon the earth, and 

 of the great ice age when the northern half of this continent was 

 enveloped in its glacier cap. 



And next, to other members, whose deep researches in 

 ancient literature have made them conversant with the venerable 

 Sanscrit of India, a language unused and forgotten before Greek 

 and Latin were invented, and who can translate therefrom, beau- 

 tiful thoughts, clothed in glowing words, as the following, being a 

 hymn : 



TO THE DAWN. KIG-VEDA, VII, 77. 



Bright as a bride, shines fortli the virgin day-brcjak, 



Arousing all that lives to daily action. 



Only freed by man's toil can Agni shine forth, 



The dawn brings light by striking down the darkness. 



Upwards she rose, and spread, still nearer coining, 

 With glistening garments clad, she grew in brightness. 



