jfrultful Zvees. 



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and set to work ? Men question the value of studies 

 which are disclosing the very paths of prosperity and 

 of social health. They deem the germ-thoughts, the 

 theoretic seeds out of which the most conspicuous 

 advantages ripen for man, impractical and Vv^orth- 

 less. They are impatient of the doctrines which lie 

 at the very fountain-head of the world's best life, and 

 have no sympathy with men^s eflbrts to maintain or 

 to find out truth, so long as it does not directly appear 

 how the truth can coin a dollar or relieve a pain or 

 till an empty stomach. 



But I am wandering from what the winds and the 

 sunbeams told the trees, and making this humble 

 stump which has served me as a chair-back a veritable 

 pulpit. Let these words be numbered now, lest they 

 quickly drift into doctrine and bring reproach upon 

 the trees. Heaven knows they sutler enough at the 

 hands of men ; would that this discourse might help 

 to create a little more care for them in a wise way I 



