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 404 A Short History of The World A PEACEFUL GARDEN IN ENGLAND Given wisdom, all manlcind might live in such gardens present time. As yet we are hardly in the earhest dawn of human greatness. But in the beauty of flower and sunset, in the happy and perfect movement of young animals and in the delight of ten thousand various landscapes, we have some intimations of what life can do for us, and in some few works of plastic and pictorial art, in some great music, in a few noble buildings and happy gardens.