LIFE AND U\l\< CHILDREN. 
CHATTER I. 
Wisdom and Spirit of the Qllivei 
Thou Soul, that art the Eternity of Thought! 
And giv'st to forms and images a breath 
And. everlasting motion.' WORDSWORTH. 
WONDER whether it ever 
occurs to most people to con- 
sider how brimful our world is 
of life, and what a different | 
it would be if no living thing 
ever been upon it ? From the time 
we are born till we die, the: 
scarce!}' a waking moment of 
lives in which our e\ 
rest either upon seme lien- 
or upon things which ha\ 
been alive. Even in 
the wood of our furnitui 
^MHIP doors could never have been with- 
out the action of lite; the paper on our walls, 
Carpet on our floors, the clothes on 0U1 
cloth upon the table, are all made of I 
life has produced fa- us ; nay, ti 
