A CHILD OF NATURE 
of the old house had had access to 
so many kinds oi knowledge, had 
seen life in so many diverse aspects 
and in so many places that his in- 
dividuality had been buried for the 
time under a mass of unassimilated 
learning and half-understood ex- 
perience-. To Foster lite had been 
niggardly in its gifts of outward ex- 
perience ; to Ralph Parkman life 
a had been lavish ; the one reached 
order, clearness, beauty by the un- 
folding of his own nature ; the 
other was to attain these ultimate 
ends of living by a rich process of 
assimilation. To the one had been 
given the clear vision, the deep con- 
viction, the inward harmony ; to 
the other freedom, fluency, and 
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