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A CHILD OF NATURE 
throning of some invisible spirit. 
In such a radiant calm, with such 
softness brooding over the fields, 
and such majesty sleeping on the 
hills, the stage seemed too noble 
for the setting of human life, with 
its few years and its pathetic uncer- 
tainties. Ralph's thoughts passed 
from himself to the beauty of the 
world, and he began to feel the in- 
ward peace which comes with that 
self-forgetfulness which is the begin- 
ning of self-knowledge. Emptied 
of all egoism, there was room in his 
spirit for Nature, and Nature brought 
her repose, her sanity, her deep un- 
consciousness. It is in such moods 
that the finer influences search and 
it is in such moods, 
