an abolish or destroy. If, as years go on, we
can feel the beauty of the world as Wordsworth felt it and get from it

"Authentic tidings of invisible things,
Of ebb and flow and ever during power,
And central peace subsisting at the heart
Of endless agitation,"

then we have, indeed, a recreation which will give us, not merely
pleasure, but strength, refreshment, and confidence. Something of the
same feeling we may get from an appreciation of great music, beautiful
pictures, splendid architecture, and other things that stir us with an
impression of everlasting greatness. Enjoy these and cultivate the
appreciation of them, but especially, if you can, cultivate the
enjoyment of the beauty of nature, because it costs nothing and is
everywhere for everybody; and if we can find recreation in such things
as these, then, indeed, we may make the joy of life great as well as the
duty of life, and we may find that the joy of life and the duty of life
are not things adverse or even to be contrasted, but may be, as Colonel
Roosevelt puts them, companions and complements of each other.

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