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 effort to rejuvenate, each rock and frost-*bound tree glittering with gems, while over his hoary head is flung the soft veil of moonlight. "Nature, they tell us," he mused, "is a harmonious expression of divine will, and human nature is the crowning masterpiece; that her laws are just, and she does not discriminate between transgressing a physical and a moral one; that justice is ultimately done; but

"Tis education moulds the common mind, Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'"

Not yet had he mastered the teaching lately given by an eminent professor in one of our eastern universities: "While science has in past years been disclosing to us the evolution of worlds, while it has been explaining the evolution of life, it is now beginning to tell us of the evolution of mind. While it has found a sufficient cause for the evolution of worlds in the physical laws of nature, while it has found the efficient cause of the evolution of life in the laws of strife and struggle for existence, it is