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importance to the maintenance of public order. 

 It is especially so at this period, when we hear 

 so much about the conflict between capital and 

 labor, of the hostility to the building up of colossal 

 fortunes, and the keeping and transmitting them 

 without doing any thing for the public welfare, 

 or for the working classes, whose labor made 

 the making of them possible; the loud complaint 

 of the anarchist of the inequality between the 

 rich and the poor, and the remedy which he ad- 

 vocates — an appeal to force — to rectify it, the anti- 

 dote to which is the willingness of the rich to devote 

 a portion of their wealth in loving consideration of 

 what may promote the welfare and add to the enjoy- 

 ment of their less fortunate fellow-citizens. A great 

 botanical garden in this large metropolis would ac- 

 complish a great deal in this way. The poorest man 

 can enjoy what it offers as much as the richest. He 

 sees there what is brought together from many lands, 

 which he could not see without that extensive travel 

 for which he has neither the leisure nor the means ; 

 and how much this recreation is enjoyed by all 

 classes is sufficiently shown by the fact that the 

 number of persons that visited the gardens at Kew 

 in 1890 was over 800,000, or about one-fourth of the 

 entire population of London. 



In the ordering of our lives, recreation and amuse- 

 ment is as necessary to our well-being as labor. 

 "He that would make a good use of his life," says 

 Locke, "must allow a portion of it to recreation." 



