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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.