ment of freedom as would break all the fetters A GARDEN 

 of obligation and duty which belong to him as ENCLOSED 

 man, and in the acknowledgment of which he 

 rises into his true manhood. 



Nature herself warns us against such a 

 course. In nature all things are under law and 

 fulfil their purpose. There is health of body 

 and of mind in getting into a real relationship 

 with things, because there is a reasonableness 

 and a beauty of the nature of things, but such 

 a relationship requires that man shall know 

 himself as man, and shall not lose sight of his 

 obligations as man. 



The spiritual value of maintaining a right 

 relation to nature is symbolized in the culti- 

 vated garden. 



Apostles of the gospel of nature maintain 

 that "that alone is to be condemned which is 

 against nature," and argue for naked confor- 

 mity to nature. I repeat, Nature herself warns 

 us against such a course, for, if "there is 

 nothing in her which is mean or base," there 

 is that which is ugly or disagreeable. If not 

 ugly in itself, it affects us as ugly. Nature has 

 her slime, her muck, her ruins. And Nature 



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