88 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
But the humblest of them all is as great a mystery as 
the proudest. Within each one of them Force is work- 
ing; there is life in each one of them. They are re- 
sponsive for a time to heat and light and moisture, 
until they have provided for the continuation of their 
species, tind then they die. As long as there is life 
there is motion, change. From the old forms new 
forms are rolling out or evolving; and our conviction is 
deepening that one purpose runs through the ages, and 
that the world is emerging into a broader day. 
The study of these humble plants may lead us to 
an apprehension of Order in Nature; it may at least 
change our faculty of sight into an art of seeing. 
“Flower in the crannied wall, 
IT pluck you out of the crannies;— __ 
Hold you here, root and all in my hand, 
Little flower — but if I could understand 
What you are, root and all, and all in all, 
I should know what God and man is.” 
