SUMMARY 



fF the reader is not in too great haste 

 to lay down this book, the author 

 would ask the privilege of a final 

 word. The seventeen essays which comprise 

 the volume seem to be a trifle discursive in 

 their nature, and the reader, who perhaps 

 has not been hypnotically fascinated with 

 them, may have failed to follow the thread 

 of argument which ought to hold them all 

 together. 



We begin our talks together under 

 the trees or in the open fields with a prime 

 endeavor to show that the world is filled 

 with beauty and that this beauty is of the 

 very greatest import to us. It is funda- 

 mental to our spiritual and intellectual 

 existence, — almost necessary to our very 

 physical life. These beauties of the out- 

 door world are argued to be our chief source 

 of aesthetic sustenance and growth. Yet 

 this enormous wealth is largely unappro- 

 priated, and little understood. 



On careful examination we find also 

 that these good things are not confined to 

 any elect persons, to any favored country, 



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