MY GARDEN It is by conquest that civilized man has risen 

 OF DREAMS above both wild nature an(J w y d man The 



cave, tent, cabin, cottage, castle, and palace 

 have gradually been evolved, and in evidence 

 of Nature's gifts when won, around palace and 

 cottage waves and blooms the garden. 



But man has not been wholly faithful to his 

 alliance with Nature. In the progress of what 

 we call civilization there has come to be, more 

 or less, a divorce of man from nature. Some 

 one has said that "progress is a disease, and 

 eventually society will die of civilization." 



What truth is there in that statement? This 

 much, certainly. We are living an artificially 

 heated life. The modern man is highly special- 

 ized, both mentally and physically, and has 

 developed and exists at the expense of a first 

 essential and necessity. His life is unnatural 

 and out of sequence. 



Living and working under these conditions, 

 we lose life's correct perspective. With our 

 eyes fixed upon our special task, we become 

 abnormally self-conscious. We make ourselves 

 larger than we are. We give to our tasks an 

 exaggerated importance, and in the feverish 



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