Pine. 
JJinus strobus. Narurar Orver: Conifere—Pinc Family. 
Veep, 
> NTERING so largely into all of our building enterprises, as 
b>, Well as into cheap household furniture, the wood of this 
tree is easily recognized, especially from its softness and 
lightness. The trunk, which is usually very straight, often 
; attains the height of two hundred feet, while about half the 
distance from the ground the branches stretch themselves like 
) great self-sustaining arms, rendering the Pine one of the most noble 
trees of the forest. The needle-like foliage is clustered in small masses 
on the tips of the twigs. The tree is supposed to have received its 
$6) name from its leaves, for the Saxon name finntreo signifies pin-tree, 
Nas does also the Danish pyn-b00m, and the Welsh pin-dren. 
Philosophy. 
| ieee philosophy! by whose pure light 
We first distinguish, then pursue the right, 
Thy power the breast from every error frees, 
And weeds out all its vices by degrees. 
—Gifford. 
HAT does philosophy impart to man She but extends the scope of wild amaze 
But undiscovered wonders? Let her soar And admiration. All her lessons end 
Even to her proudest heights, to where she caught In wider views of God’s unfathomed depths. 
The soul of Newton and of Socrates, —Henry Kirk White. 
Blest are those 
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, 
That they are not a pipe for fortune’s finger, 
To sound what stop she please. — Shakespeare. 
A when I stretched beneath the pines, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan; 
Where the evening star so holy shines, For what are they all in their high conceit, 
I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, When man in the bush with God may meet? 
—Emerson, 
HILOSOPHY and Reason! Oh! how vain 
Their lessons to the feelings! They but teach 
To hide them deeper, and to show a calm, 
\ Unruffled surface to the idle gaze. —Elizabeth Bogart. é 
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