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Good Courage—The Church the Hospital for Men's
Souls—Chaucer—Popped Corn—The Literary Style of the
Laboring Man—Sir Walter Raleigh—Calmness—The Perfume
of the Earth—Unhealthiness of Morality—Music from a
Music-Box—Raleigh's Faults—Man's Puny Fences—The Death
of Friends—Chaucer the Poet of Gardens—Character and
Genius—The History of Music—Chaucer's Way of Speaking
of God—My Life—Dying a Transient Phenomenon—The
Memory of Departed Friends—The Game of Love—A New
Day—The Eye—Originality of Nature—Raleigh—The
Most Attractive Sentences—Law and the Right—An
Old Schoolmate—Carlyle's Writing—The Tracks of the
Indian—The Stars and Man—Friendship—The Roominess
of Nature—The Exuberance of Plain Speech—Action and
Reflection—Common Sense in Very Old Books—Thoughts
like Mountains—Insufficiency of Wisdom without
Love—I am Time and the World—My Errand to Mankind—Two
Little Hawks and a Great One—Flow in Books—Nature's
Leniency toward the Vicious—Intercourse—A Fish
Hawk—Poetry—Lydgate's "Story of Thebes"—Humor—Man's
Destiny—The Economy of Nature.