Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . LEARN. 481 at* these physical manifestations of power, wisdom, andbeneficence, and shall we not learn from them and theirmost mysterious and beautiful relation to what is best in us>to adore their maker and our own! Therefore am I stillA lover of the meadows and the woodsAnd mountains, and all that we beholdFrom this green earth; of all the mighty worldOf eye and ear,— both what they half createAnd half perceive; well pleased to recogn
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . LEARN. 481 at* these physical manifestations of power, wisdom, andbeneficence, and shall we not learn from them and theirmost mysterious and beautiful relation to what is best in us>to adore their maker and our own! Therefore am I stillA lover of the meadows and the woodsAnd mountains, and all that we beholdFrom this green earth; of all the mighty worldOf eye and ear,— both what they half createAnd half perceive; well pleased to recognizeIn nature and the language of the sense,The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,The guide, the guardian of my heart and all my moral being! f Thou made him to have dominion over the works of thy hand;thou hast put all things under his feet; all sheep and oxen, yea, andthe beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea, andwhatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea.—Psalm VIII, 3 to 8. * Wonder is the basis of worship; the reign of wonder is perennial,indestructible in man.—Carltlb. fWordsworth: 31 M0TT0E2 FOR CHAPTER IIIYI. WV)er)evep fcl^e last tpurrjp shall sound, I -will ppegegdimyself before tVje govereigr) Judge -with thi§ book ig myt)aqd, ar)d loudly proclairrj : T^h)us bjave I acted ; tl^ege?w^ere ngy thougbjtg ; such was I. Rousseau : Confassions. * J^ere or) tl^e market cross aloud I cry :I, 1, l! I itself I! The form and the substar|ce, tbje what arjd the svl-jy,T^l^e -wljen and ttje w^here, the low and tlje ^jigh,T^l^e in§ide ar|d outside, the earth aqd the sky,I, you and b)e, arjd hje you and I,^11 soul§ ar)d all bodies are I itself I ! Burlesque of FichteS Philosophy. Vhjis I tjas two qualities : It is unjust in itself, in ttjat it makes itself the center of everytljing : It is aq agnoy ance to otljers. in tbjat it would serve itself by their). Hacb) I is the erjemy arjd w^ould be the tyrarjt of all othje
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