Bucke, Charles THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE; OR, THE INFLUENCE OF SCENERY ON The Mind and Heart. -The sounding Cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall Rock, The Mountain, and the deep and gloomy Wood, Wordsworth. THE following pages are the result of hours, stolen from an application to 4 higher interests, and from the severity of graver subjects.-They were written in the privacy of retirement, among scenes, worthy the pen of Virgil and the pencil of Lorrain:-Scenes, which afford perpetual subjects for meditation to all those, who take a melancholy pleasure in contrasting the dignified simplicity of nature, with the vanity, ignorance, and presumption of man. "There is no one," says one of the |