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Jpinus strobus. Natural Order: Coniferce—Pine Family . 
NTERING so largely into all of our building enterprises, as 
L well as into cheap household furniture, the wood of this 
tt tree is easily recognized, especially from its softness and 
lightness. The trunk, which is usually very straight, often 
I attains the height of two hundred feet, while about half the 
distance from the ground the branches stretch themselves like 
^ great self-sustaining arms, rendering the Pine one of the most noble 
trees of the forest. The needle-like foliage is clustered in small masses 
on the tips of the twigs. The tree is supposed to have received its 
name from its leaves, for the Saxon name pinntreo signifies pin-tree, 
does also the Danish pyn-boom , and the Welsh pin-bren. 
TAIVINE philosophy! by whose pure light 
We first distinguish, then pursue the right, 
Thy power the breast from every error frees, 
And weeds out all its vices by degrees. 
— Gifford. 
She but extends the scope of wild amaze 
And admiration. All her lessons end 
Even to her proudest heights, to where she caught In wider views of God’s unfathomed depths. 
The soul of Newton and of Socrates, —Henry Kirk White. 
Blest are those 
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, 
That they are not a pipe for fortune’s finger, 
To sound what stop she please. —Shakespeare. 
TTTHAT does philosophy impart to man 
But undiscovered wonders? Let her soar 
AND when I stretched beneath the pines, 
1 Where the evening star so holy shines, 
I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, 
At the sophist schools, and the learned clan; 
For what are they all in their high conceit, 
When man in the bush with God may meet? 
— Emerson. 
Tj)HILOSOPHY and Reason! Oh! how vain 
A Their lessons to the feelings! They but teach 
To hide them deeper, and to show a calm, 
Unruffled surface to the idle gaze. —Elizabeth Bogart. 
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