line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most

e. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically,

r art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not phil

uskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements o

The mass of men lead lives of quiet de

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times;

cent. Sometimes a pack hunting by themselves would pass my door, and circle round my house, and yelp and hound without regarding me, as if afflicted by a species of madness, so that nothing could divert them from the pursu

mine. It was a pretty game, played on the smooth surface of the

bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I

any time. Often in a snow storm, even by day, one will come out upon a well-known road and yet find it impossible to tell which way leads to the village. Though he knows that he has travelled it a thousand times, he cannot recognize a feature in it, but it is as strange to him as if it w

for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,—do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness

Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was

My auxiliaries are the dews and rains which water this dry soil, and what fertility is in the soil itself, which for the most part is lean and effete. My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woo

I knew not. I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more

be novel. It was a drama of many

had this advantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head

Will you be a reader, a student merel

f time. I grew in those s