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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of This Then is Upland Pastures, by Adeline
-Knapp
-
-This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and
-most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
-whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms
-of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at
-www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you
-will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before
-using this eBook.
-
-Title: This Then is Upland Pastures
- Being some out-door essays dealing with the beautiful things
- that the spring and summer bring
-
-Author: Adeline Knapp
-
-Release Date: June 4, 2021 [eBook #65511]
-
-Language: English
-
-Character set encoding: UTF-8
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-
-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THIS THEN IS UPLAND PASTURES ***
-
-
-
-
- THIS THEN IS
- UPLAND PASTURES
-
- BEING SOME OUT-DOOR
- ESSAYS DEALING WITH
- THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS
- THAT THE SPRING AND
- SUMMER BRING ☘ ☘ ☘
-
-
- By ADELINE KNAPP
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
- Done into a book at the Roycroft Printing Shop in East Aurora, New York
-
- MDCCCXCVII
-
-
-
-
- Copyrighted by
- The Roycroft Printing Shop
- 1897
-
-
-
-
- ❧ OF THIS EDITION THERE WERE
- PRINTED BUT SIX HUNDRED COPIES
- ☘ EACH BOOK IS SIGNED AND NUMBERED:
- THIS BOOK IS NUMBER _101_
-
-
-
-
-When the warm rains succeed winter’s driving downpours, and the young
-grass begins to mantle the meadows ❦ with tender green, is the time, of
-all the year, to be out of doors ❧ All the woodsy places are cool and
-dripping and dim and delicious. A month later they will be not less
-beautiful, perhaps, but less approachable. The things of Nature grow
-sophisticated as the season advances. In the early springtime they are
-frank and confiding, and willingly tell the secrets of their growth to
-him who asks ✪ They have time, in these first beginnings of things, for
-friendly sociability: to show their tiny roots and bulbs, and let us
-study the delicate, gracious unfoldings of leaf and bud and blossom. In
-a few weeks they will all be too busy, keeping up with the season’s
-swift march, to stop and visit with the lovingest of human friends.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Do we forget, from springtime to springtime, how lovely will be the
-year’s awakening? Each winter of our discontent I think that I remember,
-as my longing imagination looks forward, the tender charm of the
-springtime wonder, yet with each recurring year it comes to me as a new
-and unknown joy ❦
-
-The whole world seems to welcome the new year-child. Even before the
-first growths appear there is a hushed awareness throughout Nature that
-moves the heart to thankfulness and remembered expectation ❦ The hope of
-springtime comes without stint, and without fail, bringing each one of
-us the message his heart is prepared to receive, and quickening our
-purest, least sordid impulses. The best that is in us seems possible, in
-the springtime. Who of us does not then dream that this best will yet
-gain strength to withstand the heat and drouth of summer’s fierce
-searching? We turn to Mother Nature like children who long to be good.
-The worshipping instinct that lies deep within each soul goes out to
-her, vesting her in that personality which we have long since pronounced
-unthinkable when applied to God. There is a suggestion in the situation
-that is not without a certain saving humor to relieve it from
-grotesqueness. We are not far from a personal god when we send our souls
-out in loving contemplation of personified Nature, yet we still go on
-asking if God is, and if He is Truth. Whom do we ask, and why does the
-question rise? If God is Truth, He must be universal; and to be
-perceived by each soul for himself ❧ If, then, I perceive him not,
-either He is not the truth or else I am simple and sincere in desiring
-the truth. If He is not the truth, do I then desire human persuasion
-that He is? Or, if I am not simple and sincere, who can make me so?
-
-
-Nature will help us if we turn to her. We have filled our lives so full
-of complexities and problems that it is well for us to have her annual
-reminder that even without our taking thought about it the real world,
-that will be here when we, with all our busyness, shall have passed from
-sight, has renewed itself, and stands bidding us come and find peace.
-
-For Nature keeps open house for us, and even when we visit her and leave
-a trail of dust and desolation behind us, like the stupid, untidy
-children we are, she only sets herself, with the silent, persistent
-patience of her age-wise motherhood, to cover and remove it. Down in the
-canyon, this morning, among the trillium and loosestrife and wild
-potato, I found the inevitable tin can left by some picnicker to mar and
-desecrate the landscape, but now completely filled with soft brown mold,
-and growing in it a mass of happy green wood-sorrel ❧
-
-This is better than going at things with a broom, gathering them up and
-removing them from one place to another, which is about as far as we
-humans have progressed in our science of cleaning up ❧ I was glad to
-welcome the trillium. How one loves its quaint old name of wake-robin,
-fitting title for this first harbinger of spring, that comes to us even
-before the robin’s note is heard. Many of our common wild-flowers have
-several names, but there is none with such invariably pretty ones as all
-ages have united in bestowing upon wake-robin. Birth-root, our
-forefathers called it, seeing the birth of the new year in its early
-blossoming, and how many generations have known it as the
-trinity-flower! But ’tis best known, I think, as wake-robin, and the
-very breath of spring is in the name.
-
-[Illustration: ❦]
-
-
-
-
-A member of the great lily family is wake-robin ☙ It loves damp, shady
-places and moist, rich valleys. On the Pacific Coast we do not find the
-typical Eastern variety, but we have a variety of our own, tho’
-unmistakably wake-robin. Its color varies from rich madder-red to
-pale-pink, sometimes almost white. It grows from a thick, tuber-like
-root, and the calyx has, surrounding its three red petals and three
-green sepals, three broad, mottled-green leaves which, for some
-unaccountable reason, our florists remove when they offer the flower for
-sale. A strange whimsy, this. The poor blossoms, thus denuded, have a
-bewildered, self-conscious air, such as may have been worn by the little
-egg-selling woman of old, who awoke from her nap by the king’s highway
-to find her petticoats shorn. Well may wake-robin thus question its own
-identity. It is no longer the trillium of the forest: it is only the
-trillium of commerce, a sad, unlovely object ❧
-
-[Illustration]
-
-A bank where wake-robin lifts its bonny head is always fair to see. The
-plant has certain boon companions always sure to be close at hand. The
-Solomon’s seal is one of these, its roots bearing to this day the round
-marks imagined by the early foresters to be none other than the seal of
-Solomon, the son of David, (on both of whom be peace!) ❧ There is no
-more exquisite green than the beautiful, shining leaves of this plant,
-with its tiny white bells of flowers. It has a near relative almost
-always growing near it, that, with singular paucity of imagination, our
-botanists have called “False Solomon’s Seal.”
-
-
-Now we reveal our mental habits through this trick we have of falsifying
-plants. We say “false” asphodel, “false” rice, “false” hellebore,
-“false” spikenard and mitrewort, but the falsity is in our own vain
-imaginings. The plants are as true as the earth that bears them, or the
-rain and the sunshine that bring them to perfection. The Solomon’s seal
-is one lily, the “false” Solomon’s seal another. Man may be false,
-“perilous Godheads of choosing” are his, but the wild things of the
-woods are true, each in the order of its nature ❧ There are no
-complexities or subtilities about wake-robin, here by the streamside.
-You may see it at a glance, for its principles are brief and
-fundamental, as wise old Marcus Aurelius bids us let our own be, and
-yet, the plant has had its vicissitudes; has met and solved its
-problems. Reasoning from analogies, time must have been when, like
-others of its great family, it grew in the water, floating out its broad
-leaves, lolling at ease on the surface of swampy, watery places and
-still ponds. Times changed. Lands rose and waters subsided, and
-wake-robin found itself in the midst of new conditions. The problem of
-self-support confronted it, and the plant solved it by divesting from
-its broad, sustaining sepals nutriment to enable the long, swaying stem
-to meet the new demands upon it. It still loves water and seeks cool,
-damp woods and deep canyons, growing beside little streams where it
-lifts its face to greet the springtime. It is probably not so big as
-when it rested luxuriously upon the water, but it is wake-robin, still,
-and it does more than summon the birds: it calls each of us back to
-Nature, bidding us keep our hearts and souls alive to see, with each
-renewing of springtime, and to love afresh, the miracles of Nature’s
-redemptive force.
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-
-
-The beauty of springtime, like the beauty of childhood, is always new.
-All about me the things of Nature are still in the mystical, subtile
-tenderness of their young, green growth. The golden days of autumn are
-full of their own beauty. The grey days of winter’s mist and fog have
-theirs, but there is something in the tender blue days of the rainy
-springtime that sets the heart apraise, and ☙ brings out as nothing else
-can, the meanings of leaf and bud, of flower and tree. It is raining,
-now. Up above me, on the road, several picnickers who have been caught
-in this April shower are hurrying to shelter ❧ They look down curiously
-at me, here under the willow, and I have some misgiving as to whether
-they are not setting an example that I should follow ❦ But I am sure
-that it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains.
-One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of
-loveliness. There is, after all, a certain selective wisdom that sees
-the desirability of taking the showers as they come.
-
-
-There is something peculiarly tender and loving about an April shower.
-One is so fully conscious, even while the drops are falling, that the
-sun is shining behind the light clouds. And the drops themselves come
-down so gently, tentatively offering themselves, as it were, to the
-welcoming earth—pattering lightly on the leaves, and softly rippling the
-surface of the little pool under the willows. That is a wonderful sort
-of comparison the Hebrew poet gives us when he likens the teaching of
-truth to the small rain upon the tender herb: the showers upon the green
-grass ☙
-
-The young colt in the stall, yonder, thrusts an eager head over the
-half-door, and with soft black muzzle in the air, stands with open mouth
-to catch the delicious trickle. The cattle on the hills seem glad of the
-wetting. Even the birds have not sought shelter, and why should I? ☘ I
-love to watch the leaves of the trees and plants, in the rain. They tell
-us so many secrets about the life of which they are a part. Why, for
-instance, does this pond lily spread out its broad, pleasant leaves upon
-the water’s surface, while its cousin the brodeia has long, narrow,
-grass-like leaves? Why do the leaves of the pungent wormwood, here,
-stand rigidly pointing upwards, while those of this big oak are spread
-out before the descending rain?
-
-
-Watch the wormwood. See how the raindrops quiver for an instant on the
-tips of the pinnate leaves, then follow one another in a mad chase down
-the groove that traverses the center of each leaf. Notice that the leaf
-itself rises from three ridges on the stem of the plant, and that
-between these ridges lie shallow grooves down which the raindrops run to
-the plant’s root. Now, we can tell from these signs what sort of a root
-the wormwood has. I never pulled one of the plants, but I am sure that
-if we were to do so we should find it to have a main tap-root, with no
-branches. All such plants have leaves pointing upwards, and grooved
-stems, admirably adapted to bring water to the thirsty roots. The beets
-and the radishes afford us capital examples of this provision ❧
-
-This alfileria has another arrangement of leaf, for this same purpose.
-It is a widely spreading forage-plant, with an absurdly small root. It
-needs a great deal of moisture, and so its stems are thickly set with
-soft, fuzzy hairs, that catch the water and convey it to the root ❧
-Growing all along the bank is the little chickweed, with its tiny white
-star of a blossom. If it were not so common we should wax enthusiastic
-over its beauty, and seek it for our garden borders. It has a running,
-thread-like root, which receives the raindrops caught by the stem in a
-single row of tiny hairs along its lower side, and sprinkled gently
-down.
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-
-
-
-When a plant has a spreading root such as the willow, yonder, sends
-down, the leaves spread outward and downward, from base to tip, letting
-their gathered moisture down upon it. When the plant grows under water
-its leaves are long and thread-like; for the supply of carbon is
-limited, and they divide minutely, that the greatest possible surface
-may be exposed to absorb it. If the stem grows until the leaves reach
-the surface of the water they broaden and spread out, for here they get
-an abundant food supply which they may freely appropriate, as none of it
-need be diverted to build up a supporting stem. The water affords the
-leaves ample support ❧ The grasses grow in blades for the same reason
-that the plants growing under water put out slender, thread-like leaves.
-The air-supply would seem abundant, but the grass-leaves are many, and
-low-growing plants are numerous. So they divide and sub-divide, that
-greater surface may be presented to the sunlight and the air. In this
-form the blades are fittest to obtain their necessary food supply and
-thus to survive. We see this same tendency in the leaves of the wild
-poppy, the buttercup and all the great crowfoot family. Across the road
-stretches a line of locusts, just now in dainty, snowy, fragrant
-blossom. The individuality of a tree is a constant and delightful fact
-in Nature. The locust is as unlike the oak or the willow as can well be
-imagined, yet like them in taking on an added and characteristic
-loveliness in the rain. How delicately the branches pencil themselves
-against the blue and silver of the cloudy sky and the dark green of the
-orchard beyond them! The leaves have such a purely incidental air. The
-lines of the tree were, themselves, lovely enough in their green and
-mossy wetness, to delight the eye. To deck them so laceywise in an
-openwork of leaf and blossom was beneficent gratuity on the part of
-Mother Nature, for the pleasing of her children.
-
-
-Down below, where the creek widens, the sycamores have grown to great
-size. How they help the heart, these gnarly giants, with the white
-patches against the greys and blacks of their rough trunks! ❧ How they
-spread their patches against the sky and beckon and point the beholder
-upwards. The sylvan prophet bears a promise of good, and demands of
-every passer-by the query of the wise old stoic: “Who is he that shall
-hinder thee from being good and simple?”
-
-Over the rounded hill, stealing softly, in Indian file, through the
-mist, a row of eucalyptus trees climb, fringing up the slopes. These
-ladies of the hilltop have a fashion of growing thus, and in no other
-position is their delicate, suggestive beauty more apparent. The
-eucalyptus is an original genius among trees, never repeating itself. It
-stands for endless variety, for strong good cheer, for faith that seeks
-and reaches and goes on, never wavering ❧ It blesses as well as delights
-its friends. I love its wonderful, ever varying leaves, its up-reaching,
-outstretching branches, and the annual surprise of its mystic
-blossoming. Each tree is distinct and individual in its growth, yet
-every one is typical of the genus.
-
-
-It is a tree of the wind and the storm. See how those in yonder group
-sway and courtesy, bow and beckon, advance and retreat in the light
-breeze! And the rain does such marvels to them in the way of color,
-tinting the leaves into wondrous things of glistening black-and-silver,
-and bringing out exquisite, evasive greens and browns, red and rose
-colors, tender blues and greys, from the trunks and branches ☘ All the
-things of Nature are for man’s use and joy, but perhaps they serve their
-very highest use when we return God thanks for their beauty ❦
-
-Yes, I am sure that there is a wisdom wiser than the prudence which
-sends us in out of the rain. The flowers and the grasses teach us more
-than has ever been put between the covers of books. The trees bring us
-the real news of the real world long before they are crushed into pulp
-and made into the paper on which is printed our morning service from the
-scandal monger and the stock broker. It was heralded as a marvelous
-triumph of modern ingenuity when, the other day, a forest tree was cut
-down and made into paper on which the news of the world was printed and
-hawked along the streets within four and one-half hours from the moment
-when the axe was laid at the root of the tree. Marvelously clever, that,
-but shall we ever be wise enough to bring the trees themselves to the
-city, instead? If we were but able to read the message they bear, the
-newspaper might go away into outer darkness, whence it sprang.
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-There is a fearful moment of reckoning before us should it ever chance
-that when all our trees shall have been sacrificed on the altar of the
-patron-fiend of news, the newspaper supply shall suddenly be cut off and
-we find ourselves some fine morning minus our tidbits of shame and
-failure and disaster, left to the companionship of our own thoughts ☘
-Dante never imagined a terror like this ❧
-
-But the sun has come out again. The rain is over and gone. Only the last
-treasured drops chase one another along the leaves and down the stems of
-the plants. Our picnickers are venturing forth ❧ The wet blades of grass
-sparkle in the sunlight. Over on the bank a ruby-throated hummer is
-flying back and forth across a tiny stream that patters and splashes
-against a rock. These morsels of birds love a shower-bath and this
-fellow now has one exactly to his mind. The clouds have drifted down the
-sky and everything seems glad and grateful for “the useful trouble of
-the rain.”
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-
-
-
-Once upon a time man conceived the belief that this universe, with its
-many worlds swinging through space, was created for him. He fancied that
-the sun shone by day to warm and vivify him; that the stars of night
-were none other than lamps to his feet; that the other animals existed
-to afford him food and clothing—and sport; that the very flowers of the
-field blossomed and fruited and were beautiful for his gratification. In
-fact, man conceived the belief that instead of being the wise brother
-and helper of this creation amidst which he moves, he was the great
-central pivot upon which all revolves ☘
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-A sorry lesson, surely, for man to read into the broad, open page of
-Nature’s great book. Small wonder that to him in his meanness its
-message came as “the painful riddle of the earth.” But it was the best
-he could do: it is the best any of us can do until we have learned the
-great lesson which the ancient Wise One has written out for us—which she
-will teach us, in time, through death, if we will not let her teach it
-through life: the lesson that use is not appropriation; that
-appropriation sets use to groan and sweat under fardels of evil ❧
-
-We are learning this lesson, with a bad grace, like blundering school
-boys, fumbling at our hornbook, stuttering and stammering over the
-alphabet of life, the while our minds wander stupidly off to the
-playthings of our unholy civilization. Perhaps some day we shall spell
-out something of this riddle which we have made so painful, and with the
-lesson get somewhat of the humility that comes with knowing ❧
-
-But now man does not read the book of Nature to much better purpose than
-he reads those other volumes, written by himself, and bought by himself,
-in bulk, to adorn his libraries: portly tomes to which he may point with
-pride as evidence that at least his shelves hold wisdom, tho’ his head
-may never.
-
-
-I use no figure of speech when I say that we may now buy our books in
-bulk. I saw, only this morning, the advertisement of a large dry goods
-“emporium” (’tis laces and literature now) wherein is announced for sale
-the bound volumes of a popular magazine. “Over eight pounds of the
-choicest reading, bound in the usual style—olive green.” ❧
-
-Nature has olive greens, too, in styles usual and unusual, and she has
-marvelous messages for her lovers, but she cannot be bought in bulk, nor
-put upon shelves, nor even carried in the head until she first be
-received into the heart ❧ A little flaxen haired girl brought me, this
-morning, a pure white buttercup on the stem with three yellow ones.
-
-“See,” she said, “Here is one buttercup they forgot to paint.” ❧
-
-I took the flower from her hand. I could not tell her just how it
-happened that this one perianth was white, but I explained to her
-something of how the others came to be yellow ☙ What we call a flower is
-not, usually, the flower at all, but merely its petals. The real flower
-is the cluster, in the center of the calyx, of pistils and their
-surrounding pollen-bearing stamens. Away back in the ages when man had
-not yet developed his æsthetic sense, perhaps even before he had learned
-to make fire, the primitive flower bore only these pistils and stamens,
-with a little outer protective whorl of green petals. It was fertilized
-by the pollen falling upon the pistils.
-
-
-But this was not good for the plant. Those flowers that in some way
-became fertilized by pollen from other plants of the same variety, by
-cross-fertilization, in fact, were healthier and stronger than those
-fertilized by their own pollen. In such plants as wind-blown pollen
-reached this cross-fertilization was an easy matter, but the buttercup
-is not one of these. It is forced to rely upon insects for
-fertilization. So the plant began to secrete a sweet drop at the base of
-each green petal. Such insects as discovered this nectar and stopped to
-sip were dusted with the pollen of the plant and carried it to other
-flowers, where it fertilized the pistils, the insect gathering from
-every blossom a fresh burden of pollen to be carried along on his
-nectar-seeking round. This was very good, so far as it went, but the
-flowers were pale and inconspicuous, and many of them, overlooked by the
-insects, were never visited. Certain ones, however, owing to accidents
-or conditions of soil and moisture, had the calyx a little larger, or
-brighter colored than their fellows, and these the insects found. It
-happened, therefore, if anything ever does merely happen, that the
-flowers with bright petals were fertilized, and their descendants were
-even brighter colored. Thus, in time, the buttercup, by the process
-which, for lack of a better name, we call natural selection, came to
-have bright yellow petals, because these attract the insect best adapted
-to fertilize it ☙ If man’s æsthetic sense is gratified by the flower’s
-beauty, why man is by so much the better off, but that man is pleased by
-the bright color is not half so important to the buttercup as is the
-pleasure of a certain little winged beetle which sees the shining golden
-cup and knows that it means honey ☘ In the same way the lupin, yonder,
-with its pretty blue and white blossoms, has developed its blue petals
-because it is fertilized by the bees. They seek it as they do other
-blossoms, not only for honey, but for the pollen itself, which stands
-them in place of bread ☙ The very shape of the flower is due to the
-visits of countless generations of this insect. The bee is the insect
-best adapted to fertilize the lupin, and when he alights upon the
-threshold of a blossom his weight draws the lower petal down, and
-entering to suck the sweets he gets his head dusted with pollen. If a
-fly were to gain entrance to the flower, he would carry away no pollen.
-He is smaller than the bee, and his head could not reach it. So
-honey-seeking flies alight in vain; their weight is not enough to press
-the calyx open, so they may not enter and drink of its sweets. Yonder on
-a blossom of the mimulus, the odd-looking monkey-plant, a honeybee just
-had this same experience. The bumblebee is the only insect that is large
-enough to reach the pollen in this blossom, and so its doors will open
-only to him. Botanists tell us that all this great family, to which
-belong the various peas blossoms and their cousins, were once
-five-petaled plants, but natural selection has brought about their
-present shape, which is an admirable protection against the depredations
-of small insects that could only rob but could not fertilize the
-flowers ❧
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-
-Blue is the favorite color of the honeybee, and next to blue he prefers
-red. So bee blossoms are blue or red.
-
-
-Most of our small white flowers are fertilized by insects that fly at
-night. This is the reason why white blossoms are more fragrant than
-their bright-hued sisters. Bright colors could not be seen at night, but
-the fragrance of the white flowers, always more noticeable by night than
-by day, serves the same end—to attract the useful insects. This is an
-essential part of Nature’s wonderful plan. The flower lives by giving ☙
-
-There is an endless fascination in this page which Nature opens out
-before us, in her upland pastures. A wise teacher once told me his
-experience with a restless, unmanageable boy ☙ “I could do nothing with
-him,” the teacher said, “until I got him interested in field life.” One
-day this boy went off on a holiday tramp, returning the day following.
-His teacher asked him what he had seen, and this is what he remembered
-of his outing: “I camped in a field for the night,” said he, “and I saw
-a bee light on a poppy and crawl in. The poppy shut up and caught him.
-Next morning I woke up early and watched, and by and by the poppy opened
-and the bee came out.” ☙ There are those who might have missed the
-sacred significance of such a narrative, but that teacher was a very
-wise man and he knew that the reading lesson given him then was a page
-from his rough boy’s soul-life, and he conned it with reverent delight.
-Life together was more real for them both after that day.
-
-
-The keener our realization of the human love that is in the flowers, in
-the trees, in all the wild life about us, the richer is our humanity,
-the fuller our reception of life and love, the more thoughtful our use
-of all the things of Nature becomes ❧ Once I saw an oriole weaving some
-bits of string into his nest. He hung head downwards, by one string,
-from a projecting branch, and worked, for nearly an hour, with beak and
-claws. Then he flew away, triumphant. Later I saw his nest and
-understood his action. He tied two pieces of string together in a very
-respectable sort of knot: had wound the long cord thus obtained in and
-out among the meshes of his nest and then, giving it a half-hitch about
-a twig, had brought the free end up and tied it securely to another
-small branch ❧
-
-I felt grateful for what that bird had accomplished. All human
-achievements seemed to me worthier after seeing him do this thing.
-Nature teaches us so much if we will but keep still long enough to let
-her: if we will only empty ourselves of conceit and knowingness, and get
-rid of the notion that all things, Nature included, are made for us. We
-are not the lords of creation. We are only a small part, albeit the
-highest part, of it all, and the better we learn this lesson the better
-men and women we shall become.
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-
-
-
-I was sitting here beside the stream, watching the bees swarm in and out
-at the entrance to their hive, when Hercules passed by. “Come and watch
-the bees,” I called as he passed. “They are interesting.” ☘
-
-He stood and studied the busy workers, intent upon the business of their
-miniature society ☘
-
-“I wonder,” he said at last, “if our human reason shall ever evolve a
-system half so perfect as the one that mere instinct has taught these
-feeble insects.” As I was silent he continued:
-
-“Well, at all events, I can learn one lesson from the bees, and be about
-my business. If society is ever to be freed from its burdens every soul
-must do its full duty. One life wasted means a whole world hindered just
-that much.” And Hercules was gone to his labors ❧
-
-How fearful we all are of wasting our lives, yet so rarely fearful for
-the results of the ceaseless activity with which we crowd them ❦ But
-Hercules’ words are full of suggestiveness. Is our boasted human reason
-really less adequate to the needs of our life than is what we call the
-instinct, this thing that looks so much more reasonable than our reason,
-of the lower orders? What if, after all, we are making a desperate
-mistake in supposing that it is this faculty which we call reason that
-distinguishes us from the brute creation?
-
-
-It is because the bees and the other dumb creatures have nothing more
-than this measure of reason which we call instinct, that it serves them
-perfectly. Man has something else, that draws him higher; that prompts
-him further. But alas for us! With the destiny to live perfectly as
-human beings, we yet long for the restrictions through which we may live
-perfectly as the beasts. We seek our lessons from the brutes while the
-Eternal waits to teach us. We cannot live like the beasts. The divine
-human spark within us will not let us. We must live higher than they or
-we shall live lower, for our perfection of order is infinitely higher
-than theirs, and our failure immeasurably lower than they can sink ❧
-
-But we go on, we modern Athenians, seeking to ameliorate the conditions
-we have brought upon society by our own stupid disobedience and
-inhumanity, and only now and then do we have a faint suspicion that our
-newest thoughts are but mere rephrasings of ideas old as thought
-itself ❧
-
-Men get these new sets of phrases and dress therein the ideas that
-underlie the universe. We apply the terms of science to the old faiths
-and think we have invented a new religion. We find new names for God
-Himself, and believe ourselves to have discovered a new life-principle ☙
-Loving the neighbor becomes enlightened altruism, and lo, faith is born
-anew, with a subtiler power to redeem the world.
-
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-
-Hercules is a Socialist. He always spells society with a great S, and he
-declares in the present state of Society we can take no thought for
-individuals ☘ “The individual may perish,” he says, in moments of
-eloquence, “but the integrity of Society must be jealously
-maintained.” ☙
-
-I wonder, as I sit here watching the bees, whether Society might not,
-after all, find easement from its ails if each individual of us, myself
-and Hercules included, should pay strict attention to our individual
-business of growing, or becoming humanized? ✪
-
-Just here at my hand a bee has alighted and is burying its nose in a
-clover blossom. Here is an example of a life that is lived only for
-Society, yet so important is the individual in the opinion of this
-highly perfected body social, that I have seen half a dozen bees, when a
-laden worker has arrived at the hive opening, weighted down, too
-exhausted to do other than drop, helpless, upon the threshold, rush to
-its assistance, relieve it of its heavy load and help it to pass within
-to gather strength for further effort. The strict individualist
-complains, in turn, of the bees because they have no individual life; no
-existence separate from the hive. This is true, but what higher
-individuality can any creature desire than is comprised and summed up in
-the divine opportunity to bring his individual gift to the common store?
-
-
-I have picked the clover blossom that the bee just left. Beside it are
-growing other blossoms, and I gather a couple. They are the veriest
-wayside weeds—dandelion and dog-fennel—but they are important because
-they are typical representatives of the largest order in the floral
-kingdom; an order which, although it was the last to appear in the
-vegetable world, has outstripped every other and leads them all today.
-Botanists call it the Composite Order. Its members are really floral
-socialists, just as Hercules and the rest of us who believe that
-government is an order of nature, and good for the race, are human
-socialists, whether we know it or not.
-
-
-But most of us hold a mistaken idea about the relation of the individual
-to the whole. We are apt to theorize that it is the duty of the
-individual to keep the whole in order, and a good many of us are fully
-convinced that the world owes us a living. So it does, and it behooves
-each one of us to be faithful in discharging his individual share of the
-aggregate debt ❧ Nature has a whole page about that in her wonderful
-volume ❧
-
-Take, for instance, this clover. What we call the blossom is, in
-reality, many blossoms ☙ Look at the mass under a glass. You will see
-that the clover head is made up of numerous minute cups in a compact
-cluster. Each cup is a perfect blossom. As we now see it in the clover
-it is a tiny tube, but it once possessed five slender petals which are
-now united ☙ The little pointed scollops that rim the cup suggest these
-petals. Now, the tiny cup is descended from a five-petaled ancestor,
-growing upon its individual stem and depending upon insects for its
-fertilization. The flower was small, however, and many of them must have
-been overlooked by the insects ❧
-
-But those blossoms that, growing very close together, formed little
-clusters, were more conspicuous than the solitary ones, and were
-discovered, visited for their honey and incidentally fertilized by the
-winged freebooters. These blossoms bore fruit and their descendants
-inherited the social instinct prompting them to draw together that each
-might give the other its help and co-operation in attracting the
-insects. So, by degrees, the co-operative habit became fixed in the
-clover, and in many other plants, until the compositæ became a botanical
-fact. In other words, the individuals formed a body social of their own,
-growing from a compact cluster from a common stem, each giving and
-receiving, constantly, its use and share in the common life. The
-many-petaled flowers found it inconvenient to arrange themselves in the
-composite order, and so, as we see in the clover, the petals have
-pressed closely together and united to form a tube-shaped flower, and as
-the tubular form is best adapted to receive fertilization by the bee,
-which insect is the most useful to the clover blossom, that form has
-been perpetuated in this plant.
-
-
-Thus by the simple process of each individual giving itself to the
-common life, the mutual protection and development of the whole, this
-order of plants has become the largest in the floral kingdom. The
-compositæ have circled the globe. They fill our hothouses and flourish
-in our gardens; they greet us by the dusty road, and in the summer
-woods. The lovely golden-rod, the sturdy asters, the aristocratic
-chrysanthemums, the dainty daisies all belong to this great order. So
-does helianthus, the big, beaming sunflower.
-
-
-It is quite true that each blossom of the compositæ has given its life
-to the race. But what if, after all, life with our fellows is a giving
-instead of the receiving we are wont to think it? ❧ What if, after all,
-the true outlook upon Society will one day show us that our neighbor is
-put here that we may have the great, the inestimable joy of living for
-him? ❧
-
-All matter is made up of molecules, Science tells us, and there is
-another Voice as of one having authority, which tells us that One hath
-made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell upon the face of the
-earth ❧
-
-[Illustration]
-
-We humans are but larger molecules in the body social. We live only in
-so far as the common life flows through us. We never fully, in our
-plans, and by a wonderful provision of Divine Wisdom we cannot give one
-another that which is really and unmistakably our own. No human thought,
-even, ever traveled a straight course from one human soul to another and
-was received exactly as it was sent. We live our lives each within the
-molecular envelope of his individual body, and we can no more mix, in
-reality, than the molecules mix. We live only in the flux and reflux of
-the Life of all, and only as we pass this on have power to receive.
-
-
-It is when life is fullest that we turn to our fellows. Those of us who
-are true know that then we need them most, and so, our real drawings
-together are in order that we may give. We know this in that secret part
-of us where lies what most of us call our human weakness, but we are
-faithless to the knowledge, and choose to live on a lower plane, within
-that outer circle which we call knowing ☙ We think we come together to
-receive, but who of us does not know the emptiness of death that lies in
-such coming? We are all a little better than this. In secret we know
-that it is more blessed to give than receive, but we are ashamed of the
-knowledge ❦
-
-We are less simple and true than the dandelion, the dog-fennel and the
-sweet-clover here in the grass. The small common blossoms grow so
-cheerily one is glad to come back to them. It is true that not one wee
-tube or strap or head in any cluster could have much life outside the
-aggregate blossom, but the integrity and perfection of each is an
-essential factor in the integrity and perfection of the whole. The tiny
-single flower that I can pull from this dandelion seems but an
-insignificant speck, but, by and by, could it have been let alone, it
-would, its ripeness and perfection attained, have taken to itself wings
-and sailed fluffily off upon the breeze to renew its life perhaps a
-thousand miles from here. Seeing it float through the air a poet might
-have found it a theme for a sonnet. A scientist might have seen
-universal law embodied in its structure, or a seer have reasoned from it
-to life eternal.
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Yet, but for the co-operation of its fellows in the body floral, it
-could not have lived any more than, save for its fellows, what we know
-as the dandelion could have lived. The law of co-operation, like all of
-Nature’s laws, makes for rightness and fitness all along the line ⚜ She
-teaches us, with ever-repeated emphasis, the lesson of independence of
-kind. The isolated being is, everywhere, the comparatively helpless
-being. The tree growing by itself in the open field often attains to
-more symmetrical perfection and beauty than the tree in the crowded
-forest, but woodmen tell us that the forest tree makes better timber ☙
-
-We must live with and for our fellows, but he does this best who, in the
-quiet order of the common life, opens widest his soul to the Source
-thereof, and growing to the full stature of a man helps on to perfection
-what should be that composite flower of the race, our human
-civilization.
-
-[Illustration: ❦]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-The little spring here gushes up and then sweeps away along a stony bed
-overgrown with brakes and tares. On its margin, amid a tangle of wild
-blackberry, I have come upon a forest of scouring-rush ☙
-
-It is a quaint growth. I love to put my face close to the earth and,
-looking through the rushes’ green stems, to fancy myself a wee brownie,
-wandering among a ☘ dense wilderness of pines. The development of the
-miniature trees is an interesting process ❦ First the ground is covered
-with slender brown fingers ❧ thrusting up through the soil. These grow
-rapidly, and in a few days spread out their brief, verticillate branches
-to the breeze, as proudly as any great tree might do. Here is a tiny
-finger just pointing upward; yonder towers the giant of the lilliputian
-forest, fully half-a-foot high. “Scouring-weed,” says the farmer,
-contemptuously, “they aint no good. Some call ’em horsetail.”
-
-
-In fact, the queer, witchy little things have a number of names:
-candle-rush, scouring-rush, horsetail, and their own proper appellation,
-equisetum. I have gathered a number of the little trees and they lie
-side by side in my palm while my mind tries to recall a few of the facts
-that go to make up the plant’s wonderful history. Our grandmothers used
-to strew their floors with it, that no careless tread might soil the
-snowy boards. They used it, as well, for scouring, hence its name. Those
-who seek correspondences between the natural and physical kingdoms find
-the rush an emblem of cleansing, and this is precisely the office which,
-since earliest creation, it has filled for the world. For our
-scouring-rush was not always the puny, insignificant thing we see it. It
-belongs to the carboniferous age. It has nothing to do with our modern
-civilization. It had reached its highest perfection and entered upon its
-downward career before man appeared on the earth. Its progenitors
-flourished with the giant ferns, the great, rank mosses, and all the
-rest of the carbon-storing vegetation. A mighty tree was our little rush
-in those days, growing several hundred feet tall and spreading out its
-huge whorls of branches in every direction. So we find it today, in the
-anthracite beds of the eastern slope. What happened to it that we should
-know it, living, as this degenerate creature of the bog?
-
-
-In the carboniferous age the air surrounding the earth was much warmer
-than at present, warmer than we find it in the tropics. The great mass
-which constitutes this globe was not yet cool enough to support any very
-high forms of life. There were no trees, as we now understand the word,
-and there was very little animal life. Beetles crawled about, spiders
-and scorpions, and salamanders big as alligators, but there were no
-mammals, no birds ❧ The world was in twilight, reeking with moisture,
-steaming in the warm air which it filled with all sorts of noxious
-gases. It rained aquafortis and brimstone, and the sweating earth sent
-these up again in deadly fog-banks of poisonous vapor ❧
-
-[Illustration]
-
-These were the conditions that our big rush loved. Its huge spongy stem
-and branches drank in life from the death-laden atmosphere. Its great
-creeping rootstocks soaked it up from the morass beneath and the rush
-grew luxuriantly. Its office was indeed a cleansing one, to purify the
-atmosphere and make it fit to sustain animal life. In time, as the huge
-primeval trees reached maturity, they died, and the mighty stems fell
-back in the bog. Then came some great upheaval, some cataclysm of nature
-such as we find everywhere recorded in her rocky books. The land rose or
-sank, and the rocks and debris of the sea floor were thrown upon the
-decaying vegetation. It was pressed and compressed beneath this weight.
-The fronds of the huge ferns; the tall stems of the giant rushes; the
-monstrous club-mosses, and the primeval forest became a peat-bog. Still
-greater pressure—a longer lapse of aeons, and the peat became coal.
-
-
-We burn them now, in our grates, the progenitors of these feeble things
-lying here, limply, in my palm. Is it not, as I said, a wonderful
-history the frail thing has. A degenerate stock, botanists call it. So
-are its cousins the ferns degenerate, with no botanical Nordau to sound
-warning against them. But degenerates tho’ they all are, they have still
-the spirit of the pioneer. They dwell in the outposts of vegetable
-civilization. We do not find them flourishing where Nature is in her
-gentlest moods ❦ Once, down in the crater of an active volcano,
-half-a-mile from any soil, growing from a sulphur-stained black-lava
-floor, I found a clump of waving green ferns, as high as my head,
-spreading out their broad fronds as though to cover and hide the
-terrible nakedness of the unfinished earth. A thousand years from now a
-grain-field may spread where now those frail green plumes have just
-begun their gracious work.
-
-
-This clothing of the earth and the cleansing of the air are the tasks
-the giant rushes helped to perform for the young world. During the
-process the rank gases of the atmosphere were gradually stored up within
-their great stems. Liberated, now, in our grates and retorts they give
-us heat and light. Then, the atmosphere becoming purer, the earth cooled
-and life sustaining, new growths appeared. All the conditions were
-improved, but the improvement meant death to the big rush. It was
-starving. It could not find food in the thin air. Its roots could not
-suck up enough moisture to sustain life. It became smaller and smaller.
-Flowers and seeds it had never borne. It now gave up its leaves. Between
-every two whorls of branches on the scouring-rush we find a little
-brown, toothed sheath encircling the stem. In the days of the plants’
-prosperity each of these teeth was a leaf, but now the rush can maintain
-no such extravagance as leaves, so there remain only these poor
-survivals. The stem is hollow, and is divided, between the whorls of
-branches, into closed sections, or joints. It has also an outer ring of
-hollow tubes, through which moisture is drawn up from the soil, to feed
-the branches. The rush is a little higher order of creation than the
-fern, but it is a cryptogram; that is, a plant never bearing true seeds,
-but propagating by spores ❧
-
-And so, fallen upon hard lines, chilled, stunted by the cold, but having
-a brief span of life when the spring rains have made the earth wet and
-warm, and before the summer heat has come to wither it, we have our
-scouring-rush only a few inches high.
-
-[Illustration: ☘]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-And this branched stem which we see is not fertile. ’Tis enough for it
-to support its waving green feather. The fertile stems are not branched.
-They appear above the earth, pale and shrinking; put forth no branches,
-but live a brief season, develop their spores and disappear ❧
-
-The growth of the scouring-rush seems to me to show something beautiful,
-as well as interesting. There is a certain light-hearted gaiety in the
-waving, tree-like thing which makes one forget that it is a degenerate
-stock, and doomed to destruction. Still a little work remains for it to
-do: still some waste places and miasmatic bogs to be cleansed and
-purified, and so the little rush grows on, the merest shadow of its once
-opulent self. I am sure that the last horsetail to be seen on earth will
-grow just as breezily, as greenly and as cheerily as any now waving in
-this make-believe enchanted forest at my feet ❧
-
-And who knows what may be the fate of that which was the real life of
-that ancient plant—the forces of light and heat set free in our furnaces
-and forges, to begin, again, their office of ministering use? ❧
-
-Did the giant rush die? Does anything die? Ages have seen the rushes
-fall and pass from sight, to wake to glorious light in the leaping
-flames. We see leaves fall each year and turn to mold from which other
-life-forms spring. There will be other poppies, next year, where yonder
-orange-red blossoms nod in the breeze. The waving grain, already headed
-out and bowing under its burden of raindrops, was but a few months since
-a mere handful of dry kernels. They were cast upon the ground, and they
-died, if that tossing sea of green is death. We see these things
-recurring upon every side of us, yet we still go up and down the earth
-demanding of prophet, priest and poet: “If a man die shall he live
-again?” ☙
-
-A far cry from the little sprigs of scouring-rush in my hand? But Life
-is a far cry, from Everlasting through Eternity, and who shall say, of
-the least of these, its manifestations, “It is no good?”
-
-[Illustration: ❦]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-Down among the watercresses, an hour ago, studying the movements of a
-mammoth slug, I was startled by a shadow that fell directly across my
-hands. At the same moment there was an excited flurry and scurrying to
-shelter, among a tuneful mob of song-sparrows who, all unmindful of my
-presence, were teetering close beside me upon the tall mustard stalks
-that swayed beneath their weight ❧
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Looking upward I saw, between me and the sun, a pigeon-hawk soaring on
-motionless wings in the freedom of the upper air. I watched him with a
-joy that had no touch of envy, as he circled widely against the sky,
-rising, falling, swerving, returning, with scarcely a dip of the strong,
-outstretched wings ☙ High though he poised, my thought could reach him;
-strong though his flight, my fancy could follow and outstrip him. He,
-high above the mountain-tops, gazed downward to the earth. His thoughts,
-his desires were here. To materialize them he mounted the air. With my
-feet upon the earth; with no palpable pinions wherewith to climb the
-ether, yet have I moments of being, more trusty than he, a creature of
-the sky ☙
-
-
-
-
-Something of this ☘ passed through my brain as I watched the circling
-hawk. Once, with a flash of his strong wings, he made a downward turn
-and, swift and still, he dropped earthward ❧ Then, as if frustrated in
-whatever had been his design, he wheeled again and climbed as swiftly up
-the air ☙
-
-I like that phrase as describing the flight of a bird. It is so
-literally what the creature does. A bird is not superior to gravitation.
-But for that force he would be the helpless victim of every little
-breeze, like a balloon, which is unable to shape a course or do anything
-but float helplessly before the wind. The balloon floats because it is
-lighter than the air, but the air which the bird displaces is lighter
-than he, and he only moves in it by virtue of his ability to extract
-from it, by the motion of his wings, sufficient recoil to propel himself
-forward. He rises, as do we humans, by means of that which resists him ❧
-
-I love to watch the seagulls. They do this so perfectly, and seem to
-delight to give us lessons in ærial navigation as they dip and whirl and
-call about the steamers, on the Bay. Their wings are so easy to study
-while in action. The first joint, to where the wing bends back and
-outward, is strong and compact, cup shaped underneath. The second joint
-tapers. The feathers are long and do not overlap so closely as do those
-of the first joint, and at the free end they spread out and turn upward.
-The upper surface of the wing is convex, the lower surface concave. In
-flying the wings are thrown forward and downward. Flying is not a
-flapping of the wings up and down, and if a bird were to strike its
-wings backward and downward, as its manner of flight is so often
-pictured, it would turn a forward somersault in the air.
-
-
-Structurally the wing of a bird is a screw. It twists in opposite
-directions during the up and down strokes, and describes a figure of 8
-in the air. The bird throws its wings forward and downward. The air is
-forced back and compressed in the cup-shaped hollows of the wings, and
-these latter, by the recoil thus obtained, drag the body forward ☙ This
-resistance of the air is absolutely essential to flight. We who think
-that, but for the buffetings of hard fate, we, too, might soar high and
-fly free in the upper realm of endeavor, should watch the efforts of the
-birds in a calm. We shall scarcely see them flying. If impelled to
-flight, by necessity, the process is a most laborious one. There being
-no resisting wind on which to climb (birds always fly against the wind)
-the climber must, by the rapid action of his wings, establish a recoil
-that will send him along. Watch the little mud-hen, flying close to the
-surface of the water, ready to dive the instant its timidity takes
-fright. Its wings vibrate swiftly, unceasingly, for it rarely rises high
-enough above the water to have advantage of the air currents. For it
-there are no long, soaring sweeps through the air; no freedom from the
-labors of its cautious flight. It is a very spendthrift of effort
-because of the timidity that never lets it rise to the sustaining forces
-just above its head. To climb the sky is not for him who hugs cover.
-
-
-To fly! The very thought sets the nerves atingle. It is joy to be
-afloat, “with a wet sheet and a flowing sea and a wind that follows
-fast.” It is a joy to be on the back of a swiftly running horse, with
-the wind rushing away from your face as you ride, bearing every care
-from your brain ❧ But to traverse the air—to fly! This joy we long for:
-we have an indisputable, an inalienable right to long for it. To what
-heights may we rise? This, after all, is the question that concerns us.
-Sordid, creeping wights that we are, constantly referring our heavenward
-aspiration to the desire of the mortal, we still
-
- “To man propose this test—
- Thy body, at its best,
- How far can that project its soul on its lone way?”
-
-
-Our very protests, our kicking against the pricks that would incite us
-to higher effort are but our blind fear lest, after all, they should not
-mean flight. We are afraid of our moments of faith; ashamed of our
-aspiring impulse, the upward impulse that throbbed through all life
-since the world was born. We send forward our souls if haply they should
-find God, while we remain behind to weigh and test their evidence when
-they return to us—if they ever do, hugging the surface the while, lest a
-sustaining breath of spiritual force lift us clean above the safe
-shelter in which we may dive altogether should our returning souls bring
-back news of the meanings of life, scaring us to cover, after all, by
-the thought that we ourselves, are heaven and hell ❧
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Usually we are content to grovel. We traverse our little round and
-declare it to be destiny. We prate of the limitations of our humanity,
-forgetful of that humanity’s limitless capacity to receive. With
-insincere self-abasement we declare ourselves to be worms of the dust,
-and the spirits of light who look upon us may readily believe our
-assertions ☙
-
-But there are moments when the scales fall from our eyes. We get
-fleeting glimpses, then, of the meaning and the end of our human nature.
-We know that it is in the skies. We know that we have ourselves
-fashioned the chain that binds us to earth. We know that we were made
-for flight, and we know that we know all this. Still afar in the sky the
-hawk soars, with downward gaze seeking his desire. Still, tho’ my feet
-are upon the earth, my spirit fares upward in its flight toward its
-desire, above and beyond its strong wings’ farthest flight.
-
-[Illustration: ❧]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-I wonder whether the restless impulse that sends city folks hill-ward in
-the springtime is not a part of the Divine Plan that would lead us all
-to lift up our eyes to the hills whence our help cometh. They flock up
-here, the city folks, during these first spring days, to eat their
-luncheons by the roadside and to fill their hands with the poppies and
-wild hyacinth, the blue-eyed grass and pimpernel that everywhere dot the
-young meadows’ glowing green. I hear, at night-fall, mother’s voices
-calling the little ones to prepare for home-going, and I love to see the
-contented parties go wandering down, the tiniest tired climber usually
-sound asleep in his father’s arms with the sun’s last rays caressing the
-small face. It is good for them to be here. There is, in the dumbest of
-us, a faint stirring of recognition that the hope and promise of life
-are in the young year. This love of the childhood of things is the best
-thing our human nature knows: the best because there is in it the least
-of self. It is a different thing from the love of new beginnings. It is
-not new beginnings, but first principles that the soul seeks, now, and
-so we climb the hills, as naturally as the daisies look upward, leaving
-behind us the pitiful aims that end in self and belong to the dead
-level.
-
-
-In the springtime love awakens, born anew in the green wonder of the
-season’s childhood. Yonder where the road climbs the hill the sunlight
-is sifting in long bars through the eucalyptus trees, making a brown and
-golden ladder all along the way. In everything is the fresh, tender
-suggestion of a Sunday afternoon in the springtime. The air is full of
-the scent of swamp-willow and laurel, and the breath of feeding cattle
-on the hills ❧
-
-By the roadside He and She walk shyly apart. They could scarcely clasp
-hands across the space that separates them, yet one seeing them knows
-their hearts are close together. The blue sky arches over them: the soft
-clouds pass lightly above their heads: the sunbeams bring brighter
-rounds for the brown and golden ladder his feet and hers tread lightly.
-They are palpably “of the people.” Her hands are roughened and red from
-toil. His shoulders are bent by the early bearings of heavy burdens.
-Neither He nor She is over twenty years old, and they are poor, as some
-count riches, but to them, together, has come the sweetness of life, and
-He and She are walking on the heights ❧
-
-
-Yesterday they were but a boy and a girl, but today He to her is
-Manhood; She, to him, is Womanhood, and in this great human wilderness
-they have reached out and found each other. Could anything be more
-wonderful than this? Could anything exceed in beauty this secret of
-theirs that he who runs may read in every line of their illumined
-faces? ❧
-
-Students versed in the ’ologies: sociologists, philanthropists,
-economists and progressionists of every sort, we know all that you would
-say. We have heard your arguments time and again. We have listened to
-your statistics and watched the shaking of your head over these unions
-of the poor. But the wisdom of life is wiser than men, else He and She
-would do well to listen to you instead of walking together here on the
-hill road. They do not know these things that we are seeking to reduce
-to what we call social science; and if they should know them, what then?
-Are they not of more value than many sparrows? ❧
-
-[Illustration]
-
-The afternoon shadows lengthen. Home-going groups are beginning the long
-descent. The voices of little children calling to one another silverly
-over the hillside. He and She are not hastening. They have loitered
-along to where a bend in the road affords a wide outlook upon the city
-below, the gleaming bay, the white-winged ships coming in through the
-Golden Gate, the distant hills. In her hand are some poppies which he
-gathered.
-
-
-Down to the western horizon sinks the sun. The gold has faded from the
-road, leaving it a winding ribbon of grey. The crests of the hills and
-the gently swelling uplands are flooded with crimson light. It touches
-the eucalyptus trees into glory and flames in splendor along the western
-sky. It lights her face and his as they stand transformed before each
-other. They do not know that the crimson light has made them beautiful.
-They think the beauty each sees is the other’s, a part of their
-wonderful discovery, and who shall say that either is wrong? It is we
-who are blind, and not love. Indeed, love, alone, sees clearly.
-External, temporal conditions have made his body less than noble; have
-crossed his face with dull, heavy lines. They have narrowed her mental
-horizon and imprisoned her soul in a poor little cage, but He and She
-are held above these, now. They have been touched by the finger of God,
-and have seen each other’s beauty, the beauty that is their human right;
-that once seen is never, again, wholly lost.
-
-
-The crimson has faded to rose, the rose to ☘ wonderful green—the green
-has turned to ❧ white. The early moon has come out to light the hill.
-Hand in hand they are passing down the road. Hand in hand they are going
-through life, toiling together, bearing together the burdens Fate brings
-to them. They know not what these may be. It is not given them to know
-the future, or by taking thought to lighten its ills or explain the
-blunders that have heaped these up. They have no strength or power, but
-to them has been given love ❦
-
-Will love be theirs when Spring is gone and the summer drouth is upon
-them; when Autumn’s harvest time is passed them by and Winter’s breath
-has chilled their blood? Will love be theirs when, hand in hand, in the
-uncertain white light, they journey down the hill of life? ❧
-
-The cynic smiles at the question. The scientist deprecates it.
-Philanthropist and sociologist shake their heads ⚜
-
-Let it pass. Love is theirs now. The universe is theirs, for each to
-each is universal. The Life of the universe is in them, and in the
-shimmering radiance that lights the way, silvering the city and making
-long, shining paths across the distant water as they go walking down the
-hill road.
-
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-
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-
- SO HERE THEN ENDETH UPLAND ☘
- PASTURES BY ADELINE KNAPP AS
- PRINTED BY ME, ELBERT HUBBARD,
- AT THE ROYCROFT PRINTING SHOP
- IN EAST AURORA, NEW YORK, U.S.A.
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- <h1 class='c001'><span class='color_red'><span class='large'>THIS THEN IS</span></span><br /> <span class='sc'>Upland Pastures</span><br /> <br /> <span class='large'>BEING SOME OUT-DOOR<br /> ESSAYS&nbsp; DEALING&nbsp; WITH<br /> THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS<br /> THAT&nbsp; THE&nbsp; SPRING&nbsp; AND<br /> SUMMER BRING&nbsp;<img src='images/i_titlea.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></span></h1>
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- <div class='line'><span class='color_red'>THIS BOOK IS NUMBER</span> <i>101</i></div>
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-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
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-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_009.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-When the warm rains
-succeed winter’s driving
-downpours, and the
-young grass begins to
-mantle the meadows&nbsp;<img src='images/i_009a.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-with tender green, is
-the time, of all the year,
-to be out of doors&nbsp;<img src='images/i_009b.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-All the woodsy places are cool and dripping
-and dim and delicious. A month later they
-will be not less beautiful, perhaps, but less
-approachable. The things of Nature grow sophisticated
-as the season advances. In the
-early springtime they are frank and confiding,
-and willingly tell the secrets of their growth
-to him who asks&nbsp;<img src='images/i_009c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> They have time, in these
-first beginnings of things, for friendly sociability:
-to show their tiny roots and bulbs,
-and let us study the delicate, gracious unfoldings
-of leaf and bud and blossom. In a few
-weeks they will all be too busy, keeping up
-with the season’s swift march, to stop and
-visit with the lovingest of human friends.</p>
-
-<div class='figright id003'>
-<img src='images/i_009-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c000'>Do we forget, from springtime to springtime,
-how lovely will be the year’s awakening?
-Each winter of our discontent I think that I
-remember, as my longing imagination looks
-forward, the tender charm of the springtime
-wonder, yet with each recurring year it comes
-to me as a new and unknown joy&nbsp;<img src='images/i_009d.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>The whole world seems to welcome the new
-year-child. Even before the first growths appear
-there is a hushed awareness throughout
-Nature that moves the heart to thankfulness
-and remembered expectation&nbsp;<img src='images/i_010a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> The hope of
-springtime comes without stint, and without
-fail, bringing each one of us the message his
-heart is prepared to receive, and quickening
-our purest, least sordid impulses. The best
-that is in us seems possible, in the springtime.
-Who of us does not then dream that
-this best will yet gain strength to withstand
-the heat and drouth of summer’s fierce searching?
-We turn to Mother Nature like children
-who long to be good. The worshipping instinct
-that lies deep within each soul goes
-out to her, vesting her in that personality
-which we have long since pronounced unthinkable
-when applied to God. There is a
-suggestion in the situation that is not without
-a certain saving humor to relieve it from
-grotesqueness. We are not far from a personal
-god when we send our souls out in loving
-contemplation of personified Nature, yet
-we still go on asking if God is, and if He is
-Truth. Whom do we ask, and why does the
-question rise? If God is Truth, He must be
-universal; and to be perceived by each soul
-for himself&nbsp;<img src='images/i_010b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> If, then, I perceive him not,
-either He is not the truth or else I am simple
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>and sincere in desiring the truth. If He is not
-the truth, do I then desire human persuasion
-that He is? Or, if I am not simple and sincere,
-who can make me so?</p>
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-<div class='section'>
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-</div>
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-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_011.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Nature will help us if we turn to
-her. We have filled our lives so
-full of complexities and problems
-that it is well for us to have her
-annual reminder that even without our taking
-thought about it the real world, that will be
-here when we, with all our busyness, shall
-have passed from sight, has renewed itself,
-and stands bidding us come and find peace.</p>
-
-<p class='c000'>For Nature keeps open house for us, and even
-when we visit her and leave a trail of dust
-and desolation behind us, like the stupid, untidy
-children we are, she only sets herself,
-with the silent, persistent patience of her
-age-wise motherhood, to cover and remove
-it. Down in the canyon, this morning, among
-the trillium and loosestrife and wild potato,
-I found the inevitable tin can left by some
-picnicker to mar and desecrate the landscape,
-but now completely filled with soft
-brown mold, and growing in it a mass of
-happy green wood-sorrel&nbsp;<img src='images/i_011a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>This is better than going at things with a
-broom, gathering them up and removing them
-from one place to another, which is about as
-far as we humans have progressed in our
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>science of cleaning up&nbsp;<img src='images/i_012a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> I was glad to welcome
-the trillium. How one loves its quaint
-old name of wake-robin, fitting title for this
-first harbinger of spring, that comes to us
-even before the robin’s note is heard. Many
-of our common wild-flowers have several
-names, but there is none with such invariably
-pretty ones as all ages have united in
-bestowing upon wake-robin. Birth-root, our
-forefathers called it, seeing the birth of the
-new year in its early blossoming, and
-how many generations have known
-it as the trinity-flower! But ’tis
-best known, I think, as wake-robin,
-and the very
-breath of spring is
-in the name.</p>
-
-<div class='figcenter id004'>
-<img src='images/i_012b.jpg' alt='❦' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
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-</div>
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-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_013.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-A member of the great lily family
-is wake-robin&nbsp;<img src='images/i_013a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> It loves damp,
-shady places and moist, rich valleys.
-On the Pacific Coast we do
-not find the typical Eastern variety, but we
-have a variety of our own, tho’ unmistakably
-wake-robin. Its color varies from rich madder-red
-to pale-pink, sometimes almost white. It
-grows from a thick, tuber-like root, and the
-calyx has, surrounding its three red petals
-and three green sepals, three broad, mottled-green
-leaves which, for some unaccountable
-reason, our florists remove when they offer
-the flower for sale. A strange whimsy, this.
-The poor blossoms, thus denuded, have a bewildered,
-self-conscious air, such as may
-have been worn by the little egg-selling woman
-of old, who awoke from her nap by the
-king’s highway to find her petticoats shorn.
-Well may wake-robin thus question its own
-identity. It is no longer the trillium of the
-forest: it is only the trillium of commerce, a
-sad, unlovely object&nbsp;<img src='images/i_013b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_013-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c000'>A bank where wake-robin lifts its bonny head
-is always fair to see. The plant has certain
-boon companions always sure to be close at
-hand. The Solomon’s seal is one of these, its
-roots bearing to this day the round marks imagined
-by the early foresters to be none other
-than the seal of Solomon, the son of David,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>(on both of whom be peace!)&nbsp;<img src='images/i_014a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> There is
-no more exquisite green than the beautiful,
-shining leaves of this plant, with its tiny
-white bells of flowers. It has a near relative
-almost always growing near it, that, with
-singular paucity of imagination, our botanists
-have called “False Solomon’s Seal.”</p>
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-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_014.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Now we reveal our mental habits
-through this trick we have of falsifying
-plants. We say “false”
-asphodel, “false” rice, “false”
-hellebore, “false” spikenard and mitrewort,
-but the falsity is in our own vain imaginings.
-The plants are as true as the earth that bears
-them, or the rain and the sunshine that bring
-them to perfection. The Solomon’s seal is
-one lily, the “false” Solomon’s seal another.
-Man may be false, “perilous Godheads of
-choosing” are his, but the wild things of the
-woods are true, each in the order of its nature
-<img src='images/i_014b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> There are no complexities or subtilities
-about wake-robin, here by the streamside.
-You may see it at a glance, for its principles
-are brief and fundamental, as wise old
-Marcus Aurelius bids us let our own be, and
-yet, the plant has had its vicissitudes; has
-met and solved its problems. Reasoning from
-analogies, time must have been when, like
-others of its great family, it grew in the
-water, floating out its broad leaves, lolling at
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>ease on the surface of swampy, watery places
-and still ponds. Times changed. Lands rose
-and waters subsided, and wake-robin found
-itself in the midst of new conditions. The
-problem of self-support confronted it, and the
-plant solved it by divesting from its broad,
-sustaining sepals nutriment to enable the
-long, swaying stem to meet the new demands
-upon it. It still loves water and seeks cool,
-damp woods and deep canyons, growing beside
-little streams where it lifts its face to
-greet the springtime. It is probably not so big
-as when it rested luxuriously upon the water,
-but it is wake-robin, still, and it does more
-than summon the birds: it calls each of
-us back to Nature, bidding us keep
-our hearts and souls alive to see,
-with each renewing of springtime,
-and to love afresh,
-the miracles of Nature’s
-redemptive
-force.</p>
-<div class='figcenter id004'>
-<img src='images/i_015a.jpg' alt='❦' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_016.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-The beauty of springtime,
-like the beauty of childhood,
-is always new. All
-about me the things of Nature
-are still in the mystical,
-subtile tenderness of
-their young, green growth.
-The golden days of autumn
-are full of their own beauty.
-The grey days of winter’s
-mist and fog have theirs,
-but there is something in
-the tender blue days of the
-rainy springtime that sets
-the heart apraise, and&nbsp;<img src='images/i_016a.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-brings out as nothing else
-can, the meanings of leaf
-and bud, of flower and tree.
-It is raining, now. Up above
-me, on the road, several
-picnickers who have been
-caught in this April shower
-are hurrying to shelter&nbsp;<img src='images/i_016b.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-They look down curiously
-at me, here under the willow,
-and I have some misgiving
-as to whether they
-are not setting an example
-that I should follow&nbsp;<img src='images/i_016c.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-But I am sure that it is a
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>great mistake always to know enough to go
-in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry
-by such knowledge, but one misses a world
-of loveliness. There is, after all, a certain selective
-wisdom that sees the desirability of
-taking the showers as they come.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_017.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-There is something peculiarly
-tender and loving about an
-April shower. One is so fully
-conscious, even while the drops
-are falling, that the sun is shining
-behind the light clouds.
-And the drops themselves come down so
-gently, tentatively offering themselves, as it
-were, to the welcoming earth—pattering lightly
-on the leaves, and softly rippling the surface
-of the little pool under the willows. That
-is a wonderful sort of comparison the Hebrew
-poet gives us when he likens the teaching of
-truth to the small rain upon the tender herb:
-the showers upon the green grass&nbsp;<img src='images/i_017a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>The young colt in the stall, yonder, thrusts
-an eager head over the half-door, and with
-soft black muzzle in the air, stands with open
-mouth to catch the delicious trickle. The
-cattle on the hills seem glad of the wetting.
-Even the birds have not sought shelter, and
-why should I?&nbsp;<img src='images/i_017b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> I love to watch the leaves of
-the trees and plants, in the rain. They tell us
-so many secrets about the life of which they
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>are a part. Why, for instance, does this pond
-lily spread out its broad, pleasant leaves upon
-the water’s surface, while its cousin the
-brodeia has long, narrow, grass-like leaves?
-Why do the leaves of the pungent wormwood,
-here, stand rigidly pointing upwards,
-while those of this big oak are spread out before
-the descending rain?</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_018.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Watch the wormwood. See how
-the raindrops quiver for an instant
-on the tips of the pinnate
-leaves, then follow one another
-in a mad chase down the groove that traverses
-the center of each leaf. Notice that the
-leaf itself rises from three ridges on the stem
-of the plant, and that between these ridges
-lie shallow grooves down which the raindrops
-run to the plant’s root. Now, we can
-tell from these signs what sort of a root the
-wormwood has. I never pulled one of the
-plants, but I am sure that if we were to do so
-we should find it to have a main tap-root,
-with no branches. All such plants have leaves
-pointing upwards, and grooved stems, admirably
-adapted to bring water to the thirsty
-roots. The beets and the radishes afford us
-capital examples of this provision&nbsp;<img src='images/i_018a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>This alfileria has another arrangement of leaf,
-for this same purpose. It is a widely spreading
-forage-plant, with an absurdly small root.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>It needs a great deal of moisture, and so its
-stems are thickly set with soft, fuzzy hairs,
-that catch the water and convey it to the
-root&nbsp;<img src='images/i_019a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> Growing all along the bank is the
-little chickweed, with its tiny white star of a
-blossom. If it were not so common we should
-wax enthusiastic over its beauty, and seek it
-for our garden borders. It has a running,
-thread-like root, which receives the
-raindrops caught by the stem in
-a single row of tiny hairs
-along its lower side,
-and sprinkled gently
-down.</p>
-<div class='figcenter id004'>
-<img src='images/i_019b.jpg' alt='❧' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_019-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-</div>
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-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_020.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-When a plant has a spreading root
-such as the willow, yonder, sends
-down, the leaves spread outward
-and downward, from base to tip,
-letting their gathered moisture down upon
-it. When the plant grows under water its
-leaves are long and thread-like; for the supply
-of carbon is limited, and they divide minutely,
-that the greatest possible surface may
-be exposed to absorb it. If the stem grows
-until the leaves reach the surface of the
-water they broaden and spread out, for here
-they get an abundant food supply which they
-may freely appropriate, as none of it need be
-diverted to build up a supporting stem. The
-water affords the leaves ample support&nbsp;<img src='images/i_020a.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-The grasses grow in blades for the same reason
-that the plants growing under water put
-out slender, thread-like leaves. The air-supply
-would seem abundant, but the grass-leaves
-are many, and low-growing plants are numerous.
-So they divide and sub-divide, that
-greater surface may be presented to the sunlight
-and the air. In this form the blades are
-fittest to obtain their necessary food supply
-and thus to survive. We see this same tendency
-in the leaves of the wild poppy, the
-buttercup and all the great crowfoot family.
-Across the road stretches a line of locusts,
-just now in dainty, snowy, fragrant blossom.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>The individuality of a tree is a constant and
-delightful fact in Nature. The locust is as unlike
-the oak or the willow as can well be imagined,
-yet like them in taking on an added
-and characteristic loveliness in the rain. How
-delicately the branches pencil themselves
-against the blue and silver of the cloudy sky
-and the dark green of the orchard beyond
-them! The leaves have such a purely incidental
-air. The lines of the tree were, themselves,
-lovely enough in their green and mossy
-wetness, to delight the eye. To deck them so
-laceywise in an openwork of leaf and blossom
-was beneficent gratuity on the part of
-Mother Nature, for the pleasing of her children.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_021.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Down below, where the creek widens,
-the sycamores have grown to
-great size. How they help the heart,
-these gnarly giants, with the white
-patches against the greys and blacks of their
-rough trunks!&nbsp;<img src='images/i_021a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> How they spread their
-patches against the sky and beckon and
-point the beholder upwards. The sylvan
-prophet bears a promise of good, and demands
-of every passer-by the query of the wise old
-stoic: “Who is he that shall hinder thee
-from being good and simple?”</p>
-
-<p class='c000'>Over the rounded hill, stealing softly, in Indian
-file, through the mist, a row of eucalyptus
-trees climb, fringing up the slopes. These
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>ladies of the hilltop have a fashion of growing
-thus, and in no other position is their delicate,
-suggestive beauty more apparent. The eucalyptus
-is an original genius among trees, never
-repeating itself. It stands for endless variety,
-for strong good cheer, for faith that seeks and
-reaches and goes on, never wavering&nbsp;<img src='images/i_022a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> It
-blesses as well as delights its friends. I love
-its wonderful, ever varying leaves, its up-reaching,
-outstretching branches, and the annual
-surprise of its mystic blossoming. Each
-tree is distinct and individual in its growth,
-yet every one is typical of the genus.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_022.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-It is a tree of the wind and the storm.
-See how those in yonder group sway
-and courtesy, bow and beckon, advance
-and retreat in the light breeze! And the
-rain does such marvels to them in the
-way of color, tinting the leaves into
-wondrous things of glistening black-and-silver,
-and bringing out exquisite, evasive greens
-and browns, red and rose colors, tender blues
-and greys, from the trunks and branches&nbsp;<img src='images/i_022b.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-All the things of Nature are for man’s use
-and joy, but perhaps they serve their very
-highest use when we return God thanks for
-their beauty&nbsp;<img src='images/i_022c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>Yes, I am sure that there is a wisdom wiser
-than the prudence which sends us in out of
-the rain. The flowers and the grasses teach
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>us more than has ever been put between the
-covers of books. The trees bring us the real
-news of the real world long before they are
-crushed into pulp and made into the paper
-on which is printed our morning service from
-the scandal monger and the stock broker. It
-was heralded as a marvelous triumph of modern
-ingenuity when, the other day, a forest
-tree was cut down and made into paper on
-which the news of the world was printed and
-hawked along the streets within four and one-half
-hours from the moment when the axe
-was laid at the root of the tree. Marvelously
-clever, that, but shall we ever be wise enough
-to bring the trees themselves to the city, instead?
-If we were but able to read the message
-they bear, the newspaper might go away
-into outer darkness, whence it sprang.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_023-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_023.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-There is a fearful moment of reckoning
-before us should it ever
-chance that when all our trees
-shall have been sacrificed on the
-altar of the patron-fiend of news, the newspaper
-supply shall suddenly be cut off and
-we find ourselves some fine morning minus
-our tidbits of shame and failure and disaster,
-left to the companionship of our own
-thoughts&nbsp;<img src='images/i_023a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> Dante never imagined a terror
-like this&nbsp;<img src='images/i_023b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>But the sun has come out again. The rain is
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>over and gone. Only the last treasured drops
-chase one another along the leaves and down
-the stems of the plants. Our picnickers are
-venturing forth&nbsp;<img src='images/i_024a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> The wet blades of grass
-sparkle in the sunlight. Over on the bank a
-ruby-throated hummer is flying back and
-forth across a tiny stream that patters and
-splashes against a rock. These morsels of
-birds love a shower-bath and this fellow
-now has one exactly to his mind.
-The clouds have drifted down the
-sky and everything seems
-glad and grateful for
-“the useful trouble
-of the rain.”</p>
-<div class='figcenter id004'>
-<img src='images/i_024b.jpg' alt='❦' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_025.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Once upon a time man conceived
-the belief that this universe,
-with its many worlds
-swinging through space, was
-created for him. He fancied
-that the sun shone by day to
-warm and vivify him; that the stars of night
-were none other than lamps to his feet; that
-the other animals existed to afford him food
-and clothing—and sport; that the very flowers
-of the field blossomed and fruited and
-were beautiful for his gratification. In fact,
-man conceived the belief that instead of being
-the wise brother and helper of this creation
-amidst which he moves, he was the great central
-pivot upon which all revolves&nbsp;<img src='images/i_025a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_025-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c000'>A sorry lesson, surely, for man to read into
-the broad, open page of Nature’s great book.
-Small wonder that to him in his meanness
-its message came as “the painful riddle of
-the earth.” But it was the best he could do:
-it is the best any of us can do until we have
-learned the great lesson which the ancient
-Wise One has written out for us—which she
-will teach us, in time, through death, if we
-will not let her teach it through life: the lesson
-that use is not appropriation; that appropriation
-sets use to groan and sweat under
-fardels of evil&nbsp;<img src='images/i_025b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>We are learning this lesson, with a bad grace,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>like blundering school boys, fumbling at our
-hornbook, stuttering and stammering over
-the alphabet of life, the while our minds wander
-stupidly off to the playthings of our unholy
-civilization. Perhaps some day we shall
-spell out something of this riddle which we
-have made so painful, and with the lesson
-get somewhat of the humility that comes
-with knowing&nbsp;<img src='images/i_026a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>But now man does not read the book of Nature
-to much better purpose than he reads
-those other volumes, written by himself, and
-bought by himself, in bulk, to adorn his
-libraries: portly tomes to which he may point
-with pride as evidence that at least his shelves
-hold wisdom, tho’ his head may never.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_026.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-I use no figure of speech when I
-say that we may now buy our books
-in bulk. I saw, only this morning,
-the advertisement of a large dry
-goods “emporium” (’tis laces and literature
-now) wherein is announced for sale the bound
-volumes of a popular magazine. “Over eight
-pounds of the choicest reading, bound in the
-usual style—olive green.”&nbsp;<img src='images/i_026b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>Nature has olive greens, too, in styles usual
-and unusual, and she has marvelous messages
-for her lovers, but she cannot be bought in
-bulk, nor put upon shelves, nor even carried
-in the head until she first be received into the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>heart&nbsp;<img src='images/i_027a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> A little flaxen haired girl brought
-me, this morning, a pure white buttercup on
-the stem with three yellow ones.</p>
-
-<p class='c000'>“See,” she said, “Here is one buttercup they
-forgot to paint.”&nbsp;<img src='images/i_027b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>I took the flower from her hand. I could not
-tell her just how it happened that this one
-perianth was white, but I explained to her
-something of how the others came to be
-yellow&nbsp;<img src='images/i_027c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> What we call a flower is not, usually,
-the flower at all, but merely its petals. The
-real flower is the cluster, in the center of the
-calyx, of pistils and their surrounding pollen-bearing
-stamens. Away back in the ages when
-man had not yet developed his æsthetic sense,
-perhaps even before he had learned to make
-fire, the primitive flower bore only these pistils
-and stamens, with a little outer protective
-whorl of green petals. It was fertilized by
-the pollen falling upon the pistils.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_027.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-But this was not good for the plant.
-Those flowers that in some way became
-fertilized by pollen from other
-plants of the same variety, by cross-fertilization,
-in fact, were healthier and stronger
-than those fertilized by their own pollen.
-In such plants as wind-blown pollen reached
-this cross-fertilization was an easy matter,
-but the buttercup is not one of these. It is
-forced to rely upon insects for fertilization.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>So the plant began to secrete a sweet drop at
-the base of each green petal. Such insects as
-discovered this nectar and stopped to sip
-were dusted with the pollen of the plant and
-carried it to other flowers, where it fertilized
-the pistils, the insect gathering from every
-blossom a fresh burden of pollen to be carried
-along on his nectar-seeking round. This
-was very good, so far as it went, but the flowers
-were pale and inconspicuous, and many
-of them, overlooked by the insects, were
-never visited. Certain ones, however, owing
-to accidents or conditions of soil and moisture,
-had the calyx a little larger, or brighter
-colored than their fellows, and these the insects
-found. It happened, therefore, if anything
-ever does merely happen, that the flowers
-with bright petals were fertilized, and
-their descendants were even brighter colored.
-Thus, in time, the buttercup, by the process
-which, for lack of a better name, we call natural
-selection, came to have bright yellow
-petals, because these attract the insect best
-adapted to fertilize it&nbsp;<img src='images/i_028a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> If man’s æsthetic
-sense is gratified by the flower’s beauty, why
-man is by so much the better off, but that
-man is pleased by the bright color is not half
-so important to the buttercup as is the pleasure
-of a certain little winged beetle which
-sees the shining golden cup and knows that
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>it means honey&nbsp;<img src='images/i_029a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> In the same way the lupin,
-yonder, with its pretty blue and white blossoms,
-has developed its blue petals because
-it is fertilized by the bees. They seek it as
-they do other blossoms, not only for honey,
-but for the pollen itself, which stands them
-in place of bread&nbsp;<img src='images/i_029b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> The very shape of the
-flower is due to the visits of countless generations
-of this insect. The bee is the insect
-best adapted to fertilize the lupin, and when
-he alights upon the threshold of a blossom
-his weight draws the lower petal down, and
-entering to suck the sweets he gets his head
-dusted with pollen. If a fly were to gain
-entrance to the flower, he would carry away no
-pollen. He is smaller than the bee, and his
-head could not reach it. So honey-seeking
-flies alight in vain; their weight is not enough
-to press the calyx open, so they may not enter
-and drink of its sweets. Yonder on a blossom
-of the mimulus, the odd-looking monkey-plant,
-a honeybee just had this same experience.
-The bumblebee is the only insect that
-is large enough to reach the pollen in this
-blossom, and so its doors will open only to
-him. Botanists tell us that all this great family,
-to which belong the various peas blossoms
-and their cousins, were once five-petaled
-plants, but natural selection has brought about
-their present shape, which is an admirable
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>protection against the depredations of small
-insects that could only rob but could not fertilize
-the flowers&nbsp;<img src='images/i_030a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_029-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c000'>Blue is the favorite color of the honeybee,
-and next to blue he prefers red. So bee blossoms
-are blue or red.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_030.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Most of our small white flowers
-are fertilized by insects that fly at
-night. This is the reason why white
-blossoms are more fragrant than
-their bright-hued sisters. Bright colors could
-not be seen at night, but the fragrance of the
-white flowers, always more noticeable by
-night than by day, serves the same end—to
-attract the useful insects. This is an essential
-part of Nature’s wonderful plan. The flower
-lives by giving&nbsp;<img src='images/i_030b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>There is an endless fascination in this page
-which Nature opens out before us, in her upland
-pastures. A wise teacher once told me
-his experience with a restless, unmanageable
-boy&nbsp;<img src='images/i_030c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> “I could do nothing with him,” the
-teacher said, “until I got him interested in
-field life.” One day this boy went off on a holiday
-tramp, returning the day following. His
-teacher asked him what he had seen, and
-this is what he remembered of his outing:
-“I camped in a field for the night,” said he,
-“and I saw a bee light on a poppy and crawl
-in. The poppy shut up and caught him. Next
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>morning I woke up early and watched, and
-by and by the poppy opened and the bee
-came out.”&nbsp;<img src='images/i_031a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> There are those who might
-have missed the sacred significance of such a
-narrative, but that teacher was a very wise
-man and he knew that the reading lesson
-given him then was a page from his rough
-boy’s soul-life, and he conned it with reverent
-delight. Life together was more real for them
-both after that day.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_031.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-The keener our realization of the
-human love that is in the flowers,
-in the trees, in all the wild life about
-us, the richer is our humanity, the
-fuller our reception of life and love, the more
-thoughtful our use of all the things of Nature
-becomes&nbsp;<img src='images/i_031b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> Once I saw an oriole weaving
-some bits of string into his nest. He hung
-head downwards, by one string, from a projecting
-branch, and worked, for nearly an
-hour, with beak and claws. Then he flew
-away, triumphant. Later I saw his nest and
-understood his action. He tied two pieces of
-string together in a very respectable sort of
-knot: had wound the long cord thus obtained
-in and out among the meshes of his nest and
-then, giving it a half-hitch about a twig, had
-brought the free end up and tied it securely
-to another small branch&nbsp;<img src='images/i_031c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>I felt grateful for what that bird had accomplished.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>All human achievements seemed to
-me worthier after seeing him do this thing.
-Nature teaches us so much if we will but
-keep still long enough to let her: if we will
-only empty ourselves of conceit and knowingness,
-and get rid of the notion that all things,
-Nature included, are made for us. We are
-not the lords of creation. We are only
-a small part, albeit the highest
-part, of it all, and the better
-we learn this lesson the
-better men and women
-we shall become.</p>
-<div class='figcenter id004'>
-<img src='images/i_032a.jpg' alt='❦' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i_032b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_033.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-I was sitting here beside the
-stream, watching the bees swarm
-in and out at the entrance to their
-hive, when Hercules passed by.
-“Come and watch the bees,” I
-called as he passed. “They are
-interesting.”&nbsp;<img src='images/i_033a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>He stood and studied the busy
-workers, intent upon the business
-of their miniature society&nbsp;<img src='images/i_033b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>“I wonder,” he said at last, “if
-our human reason shall ever evolve
-a system half so perfect as
-the one that mere instinct has
-taught these feeble insects.” As I
-was silent he continued:</p>
-
-<p class='c000'>“Well, at all events, I can learn
-one lesson from the bees, and be
-about my business. If society is
-ever to be freed from its burdens
-every soul must do its full duty.
-One life wasted means a whole
-world hindered just that much.”
-And Hercules was gone to his
-labors&nbsp;<img src='images/i_033c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>How fearful we all are of wasting
-our lives, yet so rarely fearful for
-the results of the ceaseless activity
-with which we crowd them&nbsp;<img src='images/i_033d.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-But Hercules’ words are full of
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>suggestiveness. Is our boasted human reason
-really less adequate to the needs of our life
-than is what we call the instinct, this thing
-that looks so much more reasonable than our
-reason, of the lower orders? What if, after
-all, we are making a desperate mistake in
-supposing that it is this faculty which we
-call reason that distinguishes us from the
-brute creation?</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_034.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-It is because the bees and the other
-dumb creatures have nothing more than
-this measure of reason which we call
-instinct, that it serves them perfectly.
-Man has something else, that draws
-him higher; that prompts him further.
-But alas for us! With the destiny to live perfectly
-as human beings, we yet long for the
-restrictions through which we may live perfectly
-as the beasts. We seek our lessons
-from the brutes while the Eternal waits to
-teach us. We cannot live like the beasts. The
-divine human spark within us will not let us.
-We must live higher than they or we shall
-live lower, for our perfection of order is infinitely
-higher than theirs, and our failure immeasurably
-lower than they can sink&nbsp;<img src='images/i_034a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>But we go on, we modern Athenians, seeking
-to ameliorate the conditions we have brought
-upon society by our own stupid disobedience
-and inhumanity, and only now and then do
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>we have a faint suspicion that our newest
-thoughts are but mere rephrasings of ideas
-old as thought itself&nbsp;<img src='images/i_035a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>Men get these new sets of phrases and dress
-therein the ideas that underlie the universe.
-We apply the terms of science to the old
-faiths and think we have invented a new religion.
-We find new names for God Himself,
-and believe ourselves to have discovered a
-new life-principle&nbsp;<img src='images/i_035b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> Loving the neighbor
-becomes enlightened altruism, and lo, faith is
-born anew, with a subtiler power to redeem
-the world.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_035-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_035.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Hercules is a Socialist. He
-always spells society with a
-great S, and he declares
-in the present state of
-Society we can take no thought
-for individuals&nbsp;<img src='images/i_035c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> “The individual
-may perish,” he says, in moments of eloquence,
-“but the integrity of Society must be
-jealously maintained.”&nbsp;<img src='images/i_035d.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>I wonder, as I sit here watching the bees,
-whether Society might not, after all, find
-easement from its ails if each individual of us,
-myself and Hercules included, should pay
-strict attention to our individual business of
-growing, or becoming humanized?&nbsp;<img src='images/i_035e.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>Just here at my hand a bee has alighted and
-is burying its nose in a clover blossom. Here
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>is an example of a life that is lived only for
-Society, yet so important is the individual in
-the opinion of this highly perfected body social,
-that I have seen half a dozen bees, when
-a laden worker has arrived at the hive opening,
-weighted down, too exhausted to do
-other than drop, helpless, upon the threshold,
-rush to its assistance, relieve it of its heavy
-load and help it to pass within to gather
-strength for further effort. The strict individualist
-complains, in turn, of the bees because
-they have no individual life; no existence
-separate from the hive. This is true, but
-what higher individuality can any creature
-desire than is comprised and summed up in
-the divine opportunity to bring his individual
-gift to the common store?</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_036.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-I have picked the clover blossom
-that the bee just left. Beside it are
-growing other blossoms, and I gather
-a couple. They are the veriest
-wayside weeds—dandelion and dog-fennel—but
-they are important because they are typical
-representatives of the largest order in
-the floral kingdom; an order which, although
-it was the last to appear in the vegetable
-world, has outstripped every other and leads
-them all today. Botanists call it the Composite
-Order. Its members are really floral socialists,
-just as Hercules and the rest of us
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>who believe that government is an order of
-nature, and good for the race, are human socialists,
-whether we know it or not.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_037.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-But most of us hold a mistaken idea
-about the relation of the individual
-to the whole. We are apt to theorize
-that it is the duty of the individual
-to keep the whole in order, and a good many
-of us are fully convinced that the world
-owes us a living. So it does, and it behooves
-each one of us to be faithful in discharging
-his individual share of the aggregate debt&nbsp;<img src='images/i_037a.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-Nature has a whole page about that in her
-wonderful volume&nbsp;<img src='images/i_037b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>Take, for instance, this clover. What we call
-the blossom is, in reality, many blossoms&nbsp;<img src='images/i_037c.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-Look at the mass under a glass. You will see
-that the clover head is made up of numerous
-minute cups in a compact cluster. Each cup
-is a perfect blossom. As we now see it in the
-clover it is a tiny tube, but it once possessed
-five slender petals which are now united&nbsp;<img src='images/i_037d.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-The little pointed scollops that rim the cup
-suggest these petals. Now, the tiny cup is
-descended from a five-petaled ancestor, growing
-upon its individual stem and depending
-upon insects for its fertilization. The flower
-was small, however, and many of them must
-have been overlooked by the insects&nbsp;<img src='images/i_037e.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>But those blossoms that, growing very close
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>together, formed little clusters, were more
-conspicuous than the solitary ones, and were
-discovered, visited for their honey and incidentally
-fertilized by the winged freebooters.
-These blossoms bore fruit and their descendants
-inherited the social instinct prompting
-them to draw together that each might give
-the other its help and co-operation in attracting
-the insects. So, by degrees, the co-operative
-habit became fixed in the clover, and in
-many other plants, until the compositæ became
-a botanical fact. In other words, the individuals
-formed a body social of their own,
-growing from a compact cluster from a common
-stem, each giving and receiving, constantly,
-its use and share in the common life.
-The many-petaled flowers found it inconvenient
-to arrange themselves in the composite
-order, and so, as we see in the clover, the
-petals have pressed closely together and united
-to form a tube-shaped flower, and as the
-tubular form is best adapted to receive fertilization
-by the bee, which insect is the most
-useful to the clover blossom, that form has
-been perpetuated in this plant.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_038.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Thus by the simple process of each
-individual giving itself to the
-common life, the mutual protection and
-development of the whole, this order
-of plants has become the largest in the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>floral kingdom. The compositæ have circled
-the globe. They fill our hothouses and flourish
-in our gardens; they greet us by the dusty
-road, and in the summer woods. The lovely
-golden-rod, the sturdy asters, the aristocratic
-chrysanthemums, the dainty daisies all belong
-to this great order. So does helianthus,
-the big, beaming sunflower.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_039.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-It is quite true that each blossom of
-the compositæ has given its life to
-the race. But what if, after all, life
-with our fellows is a giving instead
-of the receiving we are wont to think it?&nbsp;<img src='images/i_039a.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-What if, after all, the true outlook upon Society
-will one day show us that our neighbor
-is put here that we may have the great, the
-inestimable joy of living for him?&nbsp;<img src='images/i_039b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>All matter is made up of molecules, Science
-tells us, and there is another Voice as of one
-having authority, which tells us that One
-hath made of one blood all nations of men for
-to dwell upon the face of the earth&nbsp;<img src='images/i_039c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_039-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c000'>We humans are but larger molecules in the
-body social. We live only in so far as the
-common life flows through us. We never
-fully, in our plans, and by a wonderful provision
-of Divine Wisdom we cannot give one
-another that which is really and unmistakably
-our own. No human thought, even, ever
-traveled a straight course from one human
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>soul to another and was received exactly as
-it was sent. We live our lives each within the
-molecular envelope of his individual body,
-and we can no more mix, in reality, than the
-molecules mix. We live only in the flux and
-reflux of the Life of all, and only as we pass
-this on have power to receive.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_040.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-It is when life is fullest that we turn
-to our fellows. Those of us who are
-true know that then we need them
-most, and so, our real drawings together
-are in order that we may give. We
-know this in that secret part of us where lies
-what most of us call our human weakness,
-but we are faithless to the knowledge, and
-choose to live on a lower plane, within that
-outer circle which we call knowing&nbsp;<img src='images/i_040a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> We
-think we come together to receive, but who
-of us does not know the emptiness of death
-that lies in such coming? We are all a little
-better than this. In secret we know that it is
-more blessed to give than receive, but we are
-ashamed of the knowledge&nbsp;<img src='images/i_040b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>We are less simple and true than the dandelion,
-the dog-fennel and the sweet-clover here
-in the grass. The small common blossoms
-grow so cheerily one is glad to come back to
-them. It is true that not one wee tube or
-strap or head in any cluster could have much
-life outside the aggregate blossom, but the integrity
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>and perfection of each is an essential
-factor in the integrity and perfection of the
-whole. The tiny single flower that I can pull
-from this dandelion seems but an insignificant
-speck, but, by and by, could it have
-been let alone, it would, its ripeness and perfection
-attained, have taken to itself wings
-and sailed fluffily off upon the breeze to renew
-its life perhaps a thousand miles from
-here. Seeing it float through the air a poet
-might have found it a theme for a sonnet. A
-scientist might have seen universal law embodied
-in its structure, or a seer have reasoned
-from it to life eternal.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_041-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_041.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Yet, but for the co-operation of its
-fellows in the body floral, it could
-not have lived any more than, save
-for its fellows, what we know as
-the dandelion could have lived. The law of
-co-operation, like all of Nature’s laws, makes
-for rightness and fitness all along the line&nbsp;<img src='images/i_041a.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-She teaches us, with ever-repeated emphasis,
-the lesson of independence of kind. The isolated
-being is, everywhere, the comparatively
-helpless being. The tree growing by itself in
-the open field often attains to more symmetrical
-perfection and beauty than the tree in the
-crowded forest, but woodmen tell us that the
-forest tree makes better timber&nbsp;<img src='images/i_041b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>We must live with and for our fellows, but he
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>does this best who, in the quiet order of the
-common life, opens widest his soul to the
-Source thereof, and growing to the full
-stature of a man helps on to perfection
-what should be that
-composite flower of the
-race, our human civilization.</p>
-<div class='figcenter id004'>
-<img src='images/i_042a.jpg' alt='❦' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i_042b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_043.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-The little spring here gushes
-up and then sweeps
-away along a stony bed
-overgrown with brakes and
-tares. On its margin, amid
-a tangle of wild blackberry,
-I have come upon a forest
-of scouring-rush&nbsp;<img src='images/i_043a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>It is a quaint growth. I love
-to put my face close to the
-earth and, looking through
-the rushes’ green stems, to
-fancy myself a wee brownie,
-wandering among a&nbsp;<img src='images/i_043b.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-dense wilderness of pines.
-The development of the
-miniature trees is an interesting
-process&nbsp;<img src='images/i_043c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> First the
-ground is covered with
-slender brown fingers&nbsp;<img src='images/i_043d.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-thrusting up through the
-soil. These grow rapidly,
-and in a few days spread
-out their brief, verticillate
-branches to the breeze, as
-proudly as any great tree
-might do. Here is a tiny finger
-just pointing upward;
-yonder towers the giant
-of the lilliputian forest, fully
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>half-a-foot high. “Scouring-weed,” says
-the farmer, contemptuously, “they aint no
-good. Some call ’em horsetail.”</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_044.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-In fact, the queer, witchy little things
-have a number of names: candle-rush,
-scouring-rush, horsetail, and their own
-proper appellation, equisetum. I have
-gathered a number of the little trees
-and they lie side by side in my palm
-while my mind tries to recall a few of the
-facts that go to make up the plant’s wonderful
-history. Our grandmothers used to strew their
-floors with it, that no careless tread might
-soil the snowy boards. They used it, as well,
-for scouring, hence its name. Those who seek
-correspondences between the natural and
-physical kingdoms find the rush an emblem
-of cleansing, and this is precisely the office
-which, since earliest creation, it has filled for
-the world. For our scouring-rush was not always
-the puny, insignificant thing we see it.
-It belongs to the carboniferous age. It has
-nothing to do with our modern civilization. It
-had reached its highest perfection and entered
-upon its downward career before man appeared
-on the earth. Its progenitors flourished
-with the giant ferns, the great, rank mosses,
-and all the rest of the carbon-storing vegetation.
-A mighty tree was our little rush in
-those days, growing several hundred feet tall
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>and spreading out its huge whorls of branches
-in every direction. So we find it today, in the
-anthracite beds of the eastern slope. What
-happened to it that we should know it, living,
-as this degenerate creature of the bog?</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_045.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-In the carboniferous age the air surrounding
-the earth was much warmer
-than at present, warmer than we
-find it in the tropics. The great mass
-which constitutes this globe was not yet cool
-enough to support any very high forms of life.
-There were no trees, as we now understand
-the word, and there was very little animal
-life. Beetles crawled about, spiders and scorpions,
-and salamanders big as alligators, but
-there were no mammals, no birds&nbsp;<img src='images/i_045a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> The
-world was in twilight, reeking with moisture,
-steaming in the warm air which it filled
-with all sorts of noxious gases. It rained aquafortis
-and brimstone, and the sweating earth
-sent these up again in deadly fog-banks of
-poisonous vapor&nbsp;<img src='images/i_045b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_045-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c000'>These were the conditions that our big rush
-loved. Its huge spongy stem and branches
-drank in life from the death-laden atmosphere.
-Its great creeping rootstocks soaked it up from
-the morass beneath and the rush grew luxuriantly.
-Its office was indeed a cleansing one,
-to purify the atmosphere and make it fit to
-sustain animal life. In time, as the huge primeval
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>trees reached maturity, they died, and
-the mighty stems fell back in the bog. Then
-came some great upheaval, some cataclysm
-of nature such as we find everywhere recorded
-in her rocky books. The land rose or sank,
-and the rocks and debris of the sea floor were
-thrown upon the decaying vegetation. It was
-pressed and compressed beneath this weight.
-The fronds of the huge ferns; the tall stems
-of the giant rushes; the monstrous club-mosses,
-and the primeval forest became a peat-bog.
-Still greater pressure—a longer lapse of
-aeons, and the peat became coal.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_046.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-We burn them now, in our grates,
-the progenitors of these feeble
-things lying here, limply, in my
-palm. Is it not, as I said, a wonderful
-history the frail thing has. A degenerate
-stock, botanists call it. So are its cousins
-the ferns degenerate, with no botanical Nordau
-to sound warning against them. But degenerates
-tho’ they all are, they have still the
-spirit of the pioneer. They dwell in the outposts
-of vegetable civilization. We do not find
-them flourishing where Nature is in her gentlest
-moods&nbsp;<img src='images/i_046a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> Once, down in the crater of
-an active volcano, half-a-mile from any soil,
-growing from a sulphur-stained black-lava
-floor, I found a clump of waving green ferns,
-as high as my head, spreading out their broad
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>fronds as though to cover and hide the terrible
-nakedness of the unfinished earth. A thousand
-years from now a grain-field may spread
-where now those frail green plumes have just
-begun their gracious work.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_047.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-This clothing of the earth and the
-cleansing of the air are the tasks the
-giant rushes helped to perform for
-the young world. During the process
-the rank gases of the atmosphere were
-gradually stored up within their great stems.
-Liberated, now, in our grates and retorts they
-give us heat and light. Then, the atmosphere
-becoming purer, the earth cooled and life sustaining,
-new growths appeared. All the conditions
-were improved, but the improvement
-meant death to the big rush. It was starving.
-It could not find food in the thin air. Its roots
-could not suck up enough moisture to sustain
-life. It became smaller and smaller. Flowers
-and seeds it had never borne. It now gave up
-its leaves. Between every two whorls of
-branches on the scouring-rush we find a little
-brown, toothed sheath encircling the stem.
-In the days of the plants’ prosperity each of
-these teeth was a leaf, but now the rush can
-maintain no such extravagance as leaves, so
-there remain only these poor survivals. The
-stem is hollow, and is divided, between the
-whorls of branches, into closed sections, or
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>joints. It has also an outer ring of hollow
-tubes, through which moisture is drawn up
-from the soil, to feed the branches. The rush
-is a little higher order of creation than the
-fern, but it is a cryptogram; that is, a plant
-never bearing true seeds, but propagating by
-spores&nbsp;<img src='images/i_048a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>And so, fallen upon hard lines, chilled, stunted
-by the cold, but having a brief span of life
-when the spring rains have made the
-earth wet and warm, and before
-the summer heat has come
-to wither it, we have our
-scouring-rush only
-a few inches
-high.</p>
-<div class='figcenter id004'>
-<img src='images/i_048b.jpg' alt='☘' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i_048c.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_049.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-And this branched stem which we
-see is not fertile. ’Tis enough for
-it to support its waving green
-feather. The fertile stems are not
-branched. They appear above the earth, pale
-and shrinking; put forth no branches, but live
-a brief season, develop their spores and disappear&nbsp;<img src='images/i_049a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>The growth of the scouring-rush seems to me
-to show something beautiful, as well as interesting. There
-is a certain light-hearted gaiety
-in the waving, tree-like thing which makes
-one forget that it is a degenerate stock, and
-doomed to destruction. Still a little work remains
-for it to do: still some waste places and
-miasmatic bogs to be cleansed and purified,
-and so the little rush grows on, the merest
-shadow of its once opulent self. I am sure that
-the last horsetail to be seen on earth will grow
-just as breezily, as greenly and as cheerily as
-any now waving in this make-believe enchanted
-forest at my feet&nbsp;<img src='images/i_049b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>And who knows what may be the fate of that
-which was the real life of that ancient plant—the
-forces of light and heat set free in our
-furnaces and forges, to begin, again, their office
-of ministering use?&nbsp;<img src='images/i_049c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>Did the giant rush die? Does anything die?
-Ages have seen the rushes fall and pass from
-sight, to wake to glorious light in the leaping
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>flames. We see leaves fall each year and turn
-to mold from which other life-forms spring.
-There will be other poppies, next year, where
-yonder orange-red blossoms nod in the breeze.
-The waving grain, already headed out and
-bowing under its burden of raindrops, was but
-a few months since a mere handful of dry kernels.
-They were cast upon the ground, and
-they died, if that tossing sea of green is death.
-We see these things recurring upon every
-side of us, yet we still go up and down the
-earth demanding of prophet, priest and poet:
-“If a man die shall he live again?”&nbsp;<img src='images/i_050a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>A far cry from the little sprigs of scouring-rush
-in my hand? But Life is a far cry,
-from Everlasting through Eternity,
-and who shall say, of the
-least of these, its manifestations,
-“It is
-no good?”</p>
-<div class='figcenter id004'>
-<img src='images/i_050b.jpg' alt='❦' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i_050c.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_051.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Down among the watercresses,
-an hour ago, studying
-the movements of a
-mammoth slug, I was startled
-by a shadow that fell
-directly across my hands.
-At the same moment there
-was an excited flurry and
-scurrying to shelter, among a tuneful mob of
-song-sparrows who, all unmindful of my presence,
-were teetering close beside me upon the
-tall mustard stalks that swayed beneath their
-weight&nbsp;<img src='images/i_051a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_051-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c000'>Looking upward I saw, between me and the
-sun, a pigeon-hawk soaring on motionless
-wings in the freedom of the upper air. I
-watched him with a joy that had no touch of
-envy, as he circled widely against the sky,
-rising, falling, swerving, returning, with scarcely
-a dip of the strong, outstretched wings&nbsp;<img src='images/i_051b.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-High though he poised, my thought could reach
-him; strong though his flight, my fancy could
-follow and outstrip him. He, high above the
-mountain-tops, gazed downward to the earth.
-His thoughts, his desires were here. To materialize
-them he mounted the air. With my feet
-upon the earth; with no palpable pinions
-wherewith to climb the ether, yet have I moments
-of being, more trusty than he, a creature
-of the sky&nbsp;<img src='images/i_051c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_052.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Something of this&nbsp;<img src='images/i_052a.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-passed through my brain
-as I watched the circling
-hawk. Once, with a flash
-of his strong wings, he
-made a downward turn
-and, swift and still, he
-dropped earthward&nbsp;<img src='images/i_052b.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-Then, as if frustrated in whatever had been
-his design, he wheeled again and climbed as
-swiftly up the air&nbsp;<img src='images/i_052c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>I like that phrase as describing the flight of a
-bird. It is so literally what the creature does.
-A bird is not superior to gravitation. But for
-that force he would be the helpless victim of
-every little breeze, like a balloon, which is unable
-to shape a course or do anything but float
-helplessly before the wind. The balloon floats
-because it is lighter than the air, but the air
-which the bird displaces is lighter than he,
-and he only moves in it by virtue of his ability
-to extract from it, by the motion of his wings,
-sufficient recoil to propel himself forward.
-He rises, as do we humans, by means of that
-which resists him&nbsp;<img src='images/i_052d.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>I love to watch the seagulls. They do this so
-perfectly, and seem to delight to give us lessons
-in ærial navigation as they dip and whirl
-and call about the steamers, on the Bay.
-Their wings are so easy to study while in action.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>The first joint, to where the wing bends
-back and outward, is strong and compact, cup
-shaped underneath. The second joint tapers.
-The feathers are long and do not overlap so
-closely as do those of the first joint, and at the
-free end they spread out and turn upward.
-The upper surface of the wing is convex, the
-lower surface concave. In flying the wings are
-thrown forward and downward. Flying is not
-a flapping of the wings up and down, and if a
-bird were to strike its wings backward and
-downward, as its manner of flight is so often
-pictured, it would turn a forward somersault
-in the air.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_053.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Structurally the wing of a
-bird is a screw. It twists in opposite
-directions during the up and
-down strokes, and describes a figure
-of 8 in the air. The bird throws its wings
-forward and downward. The air is forced
-back and compressed in the cup-shaped hollows
-of the wings, and these latter, by the recoil
-thus obtained, drag the body forward&nbsp;<img src='images/i_053a.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-This resistance of the air is absolutely essential
-to flight. We who think that, but for the
-buffetings of hard fate, we, too, might soar
-high and fly free in the upper realm of endeavor,
-should watch the efforts of the birds in a
-calm. We shall scarcely see them flying. If
-impelled to flight, by necessity, the process is
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>a most laborious one. There being no resisting
-wind on which to climb (birds always fly
-against the wind) the climber must, by the
-rapid action of his wings, establish a recoil
-that will send him along. Watch the little
-mud-hen, flying close to the surface of the water,
-ready to dive the instant its timidity takes
-fright. Its wings vibrate swiftly, unceasingly,
-for it rarely rises high enough above the water
-to have advantage of the air currents. For it
-there are no long, soaring sweeps through the
-air; no freedom from the labors of its cautious
-flight. It is a very spendthrift of effort because
-of the timidity that never lets it rise to the
-sustaining forces just above its head. To climb
-the sky is not for him who hugs cover.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_054.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-To fly! The very thought sets
-the nerves atingle. It is joy to be
-afloat, “with a wet sheet
-and a flowing sea and a wind
-that follows fast.” It is a joy
-to be on the back of a swiftly
-running horse, with the wind rushing away
-from your face as you ride, bearing every
-care from your brain&nbsp;<img src='images/i_054a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /> But to traverse
-the air—to fly! This joy we long for: we
-have an indisputable, an inalienable right to
-long for it. To what heights may we rise?
-This, after all, is the question that concerns
-us. Sordid, creeping wights that we are, constantly
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>referring our heavenward aspiration
-to the desire of the mortal, we still</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-b c007'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line in6'>“To man propose this test—</div>
- <div class='line in6'>Thy body, at its best,</div>
- <div class='line'>How far can that project its soul on its lone way?”</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_055.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Our very protests, our kicking
-against the pricks that would incite
-us to higher effort are but our blind
-fear lest, after all, they should not
-mean flight. We are afraid of our moments of
-faith; ashamed of our aspiring impulse, the
-upward impulse that throbbed through all life
-since the world was born. We send forward
-our souls if haply they should find God, while
-we remain behind to weigh and test their evidence
-when they return to us—if they ever
-do, hugging the surface the while, lest a sustaining
-breath of spiritual force lift us clean
-above the safe shelter in which we may dive
-altogether should our returning souls bring
-back news of the meanings of life, scaring us
-to cover, after all, by the thought that we
-ourselves, are heaven and hell&nbsp;<img src='images/i_055a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_055-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c000'>Usually we are content to grovel. We traverse
-our little round and declare it to be destiny.
-We prate of the limitations of our humanity,
-forgetful of that humanity’s limitless capacity
-to receive. With insincere self-abasement
-we declare ourselves to be worms of the dust,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>and the spirits of light who look upon us may
-readily believe our assertions&nbsp;<img src='images/i_056a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>But there are moments when the scales fall
-from our eyes. We get fleeting glimpses, then,
-of the meaning and the end of our human nature.
-We know that it is in the skies. We
-know that we have ourselves fashioned the
-chain that binds us to earth. We know that
-we were made for flight, and we know that
-we know all this. Still afar in the sky
-the hawk soars, with downward gaze
-seeking his desire. Still, tho’ my feet
-are upon the earth, my spirit
-fares upward in its flight toward
-its desire, above and
-beyond its strong
-wings’ farthest
-flight.</p>
-<div class='figcenter id004'>
-<img src='images/i_056b.jpg' alt='❧' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i_056c.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c005'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_057.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-I wonder whether the restless
-impulse that sends city folks hill-ward
-in the springtime is not a
-part of the Divine Plan that
-would lead us all to lift up our
-eyes to the hills whence our help
-cometh. They flock up here, the
-city folks, during these first spring
-days, to eat their luncheons by
-the roadside and to fill their hands
-with the poppies and wild hyacinth,
-the blue-eyed grass and
-pimpernel that everywhere dot
-the young meadows’ glowing
-green. I hear, at night-fall, mother’s
-voices calling the little ones
-to prepare for home-going, and I
-love to see the contented parties
-go wandering down, the tiniest
-tired climber usually sound asleep
-in his father’s arms with the sun’s
-last rays caressing the small face.
-It is good for them to be here.
-There is, in the dumbest of us, a
-faint stirring of recognition that
-the hope and promise of life are
-in the young year. This love of
-the childhood of things is the best
-thing our human nature knows:
-the best because there is in it the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>least of self. It is a different thing from the
-love of new beginnings. It is not new beginnings,
-but first principles that the soul seeks,
-now, and so we climb the hills, as naturally as
-the daisies look upward, leaving behind us the
-pitiful aims that end in self and belong to the
-dead level.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_058.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-In the springtime love awakens, born
-anew in the green wonder of the season’s
-childhood. Yonder where the road
-climbs the hill the sunlight is sifting in
-long bars through the eucalyptus trees,
-making a brown and golden ladder all
-along the way. In everything is the fresh,
-tender suggestion of a Sunday afternoon in
-the springtime. The air is full of the scent of
-swamp-willow and laurel, and the breath of
-feeding cattle on the hills&nbsp;<img src='images/i_058a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>By the roadside He and She walk shyly apart.
-They could scarcely clasp hands across the
-space that separates them, yet one seeing
-them knows their hearts are close together.
-The blue sky arches over them: the soft
-clouds pass lightly above their heads: the
-sunbeams bring brighter rounds for the brown
-and golden ladder his feet and hers tread lightly.
-They are palpably “of the people.” Her
-hands are roughened and red from toil. His
-shoulders are bent by the early bearings of
-heavy burdens. Neither He nor She is over
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span>twenty years old, and they are poor, as some
-count riches, but to them, together, has come
-the sweetness of life, and He and She are
-walking on the heights&nbsp;<img src='images/i_059a.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_059.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Yesterday they were but a boy
-and a girl, but today He to her is
-Manhood; She, to him, is Womanhood,
-and in this great human wilderness
-they have reached out and found each
-other. Could anything be more wonderful than
-this? Could anything exceed in beauty this secret
-of theirs that he who runs may read in
-every line of their illumined faces?&nbsp;<img src='images/i_059b.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>Students versed in the ’ologies: sociologists,
-philanthropists, economists and progressionists
-of every sort, we know all that you would
-say. We have heard your arguments time and
-again. We have listened to your statistics and
-watched the shaking of your head over these
-unions of the poor. But the wisdom of life is
-wiser than men, else He and She would do
-well to listen to you instead of walking together
-here on the hill road. They do not know
-these things that we are seeking to reduce to
-what we call social science; and if they should
-know them, what then? Are they not of more
-value than many sparrows?&nbsp;<img src='images/i_059c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<div class='figright id005'>
-<img src='images/i_059-w.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c000'>The afternoon shadows lengthen. Home-going
-groups are beginning the long descent. The
-voices of little children calling to one another
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>silverly over the hillside. He and She are
-not hastening. They have loitered along to
-where a bend in the road affords a wide outlook
-upon the city below, the gleaming bay,
-the white-winged ships coming in through the
-Golden Gate, the distant hills. In her hand are
-some poppies which he gathered.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_060.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-Down to the western horizon
-sinks the sun. The gold has
-faded from the road, leaving it
-a winding ribbon of grey. The
-crests of the hills and the gently
-swelling uplands are flooded
-with crimson light. It touches the eucalyptus
-trees into glory and flames in splendor along
-the western sky. It lights her face and his as
-they stand transformed before each other.
-They do not know that the crimson light has
-made them beautiful. They think the beauty
-each sees is the other’s, a part of their wonderful
-discovery, and who shall say that either
-is wrong? It is we who are blind, and not
-love. Indeed, love, alone, sees clearly. External,
-temporal conditions have made his body
-less than noble; have crossed his face with
-dull, heavy lines. They have narrowed her
-mental horizon and imprisoned her soul in a
-poor little cage, but He and She are held above
-these, now. They have been touched by the
-finger of God, and have seen each other’s
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span>beauty, the beauty that is their human right;
-that once seen is never, again, wholly lost.</p>
-
-<div class='section'>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='c006'>
- <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_061.jpg' width='100' alt='' />
-</div><p class='drop-capi_8'>
-The crimson has faded
-to rose, the rose to&nbsp;<img src='images/i_061a.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-wonderful green—the green
-has turned to&nbsp;<img src='images/i_061b.jpg' alt='' class='img' />
-white. The early moon
-has come out to light
-the hill. Hand in hand
-they are passing down
-the road. Hand in hand
-they are going through life, toiling together,
-bearing together the burdens Fate brings to
-them. They know not what these may be. It
-is not given them to know the future, or by
-taking thought to lighten its ills or explain the
-blunders that have heaped these up. They
-have no strength or power, but to them has
-been given love&nbsp;<img src='images/i_061c.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>Will love be theirs when Spring is gone and
-the summer drouth is upon them; when Autumn’s
-harvest time is passed them by and
-Winter’s breath has chilled their blood? Will
-love be theirs when, hand in hand, in the uncertain
-white light, they journey down the hill
-of life?&nbsp;<img src='images/i_061d.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>The cynic smiles at the question. The scientist
-deprecates it. Philanthropist and sociologist
-shake their heads&nbsp;<img src='images/i_061e.jpg' alt='' class='img' /></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>Let it pass. Love is theirs now. The universe
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>is theirs, for each to each is universal. The
-Life of the universe is in them, and in
-the shimmering radiance that lights
-the way, silvering the city and
-making long, shining paths
-across the distant water
-as they go walking
-down the
-hill road.</p>
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