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132 characteristics in common; that the Parsnip even belongs to the same class as Hemlock, and the Turnip to the same class as the weed Shepherd's Purse; that the plants are equally good in the sight of God, and equally interesting from the point of view of Science; that the fact of some plants being fit for human food, and others useless or harmful to man, is due to an accident of the human organization. The weeder should be exhorted to make a practice of preparing for repose by reflecting a moment on these truths as he comes home from work in the evening. He should be told, too, that the amount of blessing which he can thus draw down on himself by meditating on The Unity of plant-life, will be commensurate with the completeness of his attention, during work-hours, to the business of discriminating crop from weeds.

This lesson forms a good preparation for the great climax of all unification. The pupil should be told that the business of our life on earth consists in weeding Good from that which, for man, is Evil; and that we should prepare for the Sabbath, by which the strain of life is relieved, by thinking of Him of Whom it is written:

"I make Peace, and I create evil, saith the Lord."

For a kitchen-maid, a suitable unification would be to reflect on the fact that the potato and its peel,—or the cabbage and its outer leaves,—grew as one.

For a class in History, the unification might consist in reflecting that the Nation whose exploits they have been admiring, and whose triumphs they have been sharing, is but a part of Humanity; that every victory it has won, in war,has injured some other Nation; whereas every achievement it has made in Science or Art has,