XV 



'LL human beings draw pleasure 

 I from Nature in an instinctive 

 i way. They enjoy fresh air, 

 ' sunshine, and open outlooks ; 



they prefer a blue sky to a gray one, and 

 will confess that a green landscape is pleas- 

 anter to the eye than grimy pavements, even 

 though for other reasons they may prefer to 

 live in town. 



Such likings as these prove no love of 

 Nature ; they are almost purely physical ; 

 sentiment has little more to do vrith them, 

 than with the pleasure of an animal 

 basking in the sun. But the majority of 

 people, even among the uncultivated classes, 

 have a deeper feeling for Nature than this, 

 and appreciate something of its beauty. 

 Stupid and brutalized indeed is the man or 

 woman who does not notice a briUiant bed 

 of flowers, or would not be impressed by the 

 sight of a great mountain-chain. On Sundays 



