PRIMULA, OR 

 CHINA PRIMROSE, 



Vrlniuhf jD'cciiilcns. 



JFSfti'^,^ UIILIAl-UTV does not al- 

 ^\ays breed contempt^ and 

 tlie exeejitions to the rule 

 ma\' suppl}' a problem fVn 

 the ])liiloso})hers. Perhaps 

 lamiliarity never breeils eon- 

 trmptj f(ir what we attribute 

 to " familiarity " may be 

 leally attributable to the 

 nearer knowledge of men and 

 thing's that familiarity fa- 

 \ours. ^Ve set up iduls and 

 worship them. When we 

 discover that they are made 

 of wood; we dethrone them. 

 We admire a thing becau;;e 

 it is new, and discard it 

 nlien we learn that it is 

 T\orthless; Init a really good 

 tiling retains our res])cct when the nox'elt}' has passed 

 awa}', and thus it is that \ve ne\'er feel contempt for smdi 

 familiar^ cheap, and simple things as bread and butter, 

 scarlet runners, and Chinese primroses. 



This jilant came to our hands in the jear I'^-li), and 



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