" Tou work for God— fellow-workers, as it were, with 

 the divine forces of Nature. God, in his changeless 

 working, recks not of our fantasies : Nature will have 

 none of our false systems. She is supreme, absolute as is 

 her Author. She repudiates our foolishness, and rudely 

 dispels our illusions. Work with her and she responds, 

 aids, and rewards us in proportion to the worth of our 

 endeavour ; hut if we would outwit her, coerce or restrain 

 her action, and falsify her teaching, at once she gives us 

 the lie by the sterility, destruction, and death of every- 

 thing we have sought to create in defiance of her laws." 

 — -Lamartine (Address to Gardeners). 



