mmmmm 
 
 UC-NRLF 
 
 T TR ^ 
 
REEF POINT GARDENS 
 LIBRARY 
 
 The Gift of Beatrix Farrand 
 
 to the General Library 
 
 University of Calif ornia.Berkeley 
 
J-/^/^ITCHELL- 
 
 
 • 
 
 HENP^- HOLT &.C0 
 NEV/ YORJC 
 
m^ 
 
 REEF 
 
 POINT 
 
 GARDENS 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
Copynght, 1881, 
 
 BY 
 
 HENRY HOLT & CO. 
 
 V 
 
 » 
 
 Printed by 
 D. G F. CLASS, 
 17 & 19 Rose St 
 
 GIFT 
 
\ • . V 
 
 riS6 
 
 i.^^'' • \...a^^VH^ 
 
 MKa^' 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 Various minor Summer Schools of (Philosophy having lately 
 
 attracted som^e share of public attention, it has been thought due 
 to the great school at Mount (Desert, and the interesting depart- 
 ment of the subject to which that school is principally devoted, to 
 give to the world even these humble efforts at presenting some 
 features of the methods there employed, and of the life led by 
 the mem^bers of the school, 
 
 / 
 
 678 
 
THE FmST (BOAT JfRmVES. 
 
THE SCHOOL ASSEM(BLES 
 Winter is departing and the island waking up. 
 
r 
 
 
 O^EJ^IJ^G EXEfRCISES. 
 
 With a general idea of the Mount (Desert coast. 
 
SOME FUJ^QAMEJ^TAL COJ^SmE^RATIOJ^S, 
 as realized on (Rodick's (Piazza. 
 
 
 FMST IMa^fRESSIOUS OF A MOUMT (DESE'&T mUCKfBOA'RfD. 
 
 7 
 
THE (PHILOSOPHY OF THE PEmPATETlCS. 
 
 Canoeing is a, beautiful exercise, and develops both the muscle and the 
 heart, but is it dangerous P 
 
 We answer : JVo I As long as you stay in the canoe you are safe. 
 
 8 
 
THE HEIGHTS OF THILOSOTHY. 
 
 c 
 
 -^\ 
 
 
 % 
 
 
 ^'The view at the summit of Jlewport Mountain this afternoon 
 was sublime. I remained therefor hours drinking it in, and now feel 
 refreshed and elevated from such communing with nature." — From 
 Van Twitter's epistle to his Aunt. 
 
A FAVOaUTE SKia'(PE^. 
 
 10 
 
A SKEPTIC 
 who prefers Tennis to (Rocking. 
 
 THE GfROVES OF JCAOEjME, 
 
 11 
 
THE rpHILOSO0:'HY OF FAITH. 
 
 Julia's Mother (loq.): 
 
 "Julia is off sketching: — 
 She has a passionate 
 love of Art and gives 
 herself up to it entirely, 
 which saves my keeping 
 a constant eye upon her as 
 
 I should feel obliged to do if 
 
 she were inclined to spend her time 
 
 as frivolously as so many of 
 the girls one sees here!' 
 
 This is 
 Julia.. 
 
rf(^i^U -2 
 
 JVJTU^JL SELECTIOJV. 
 
 {^' He has continually selected the most beautiful women .... until 
 the law of the survival of the fittest has given wom,an the superior 
 beauty she now has." — Uation, Sept. i, 1881) ij 
 

 
 
 ft J '^ i .Tii^A ''i . i-'l 
 
 (FHlLOSOamErRS OF THE J^EW SCHOOL. 
 
 SOME USES FOai f? H I LOSO<? H Y. 
 (One of the evils of three on a seal.) 
 
 ^7 
 
:3F=^ 
 
 THE STUQEJ\ITS' VIGILS. 
 (^A sketch from memory.) 
 
 18 
 
SOME MESHES OF THE SUmjECT. /[r^^' ^Ue ^co^r'mc^rks 
 
 a 'Uovc game,") 
 
 ^9 
 
THE (PHILOSO^PIIY 
 OF MOTIOJL 
 
 {Coming home fro'in Som,esville^ 
 
 20 
 
THE (PHILOSOPHY 
 OF S^JCE. 
 
 R 
 
 
 •,t. 
 
 'k 
 
 fj v 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 V 
 2^ J, 
 
 A view of the Atlantic Ocean and the Moon, as they appear from 
 
 the (Rocks at (Bar Harbor. 
 
 21 
 
THE CPH1L0S09HY 
 
 OF TIME. 
 
 ZET ^JJJ'iltQ — 
 
 22 
 
THE SUM OF ALL eHILOSO^HY, 
 
 ^3 
 
ytL z\idb