Life, Fecundity of—See [Propagation, Prolific].
LIFE, FEEDING THE
The Mississippi River, which empties its wealth of waters into the Gulf of Mexico, is fed by the Missouri, the Ohio, the Tennessee, the Red River, and indirectly the Allegheny and Monongahela, and the Yellowstone and the Platte. The Amazon River drains an area of two and a half million square miles, or the waters of more than a third of all the South American continent. The River Nile is almost equally enriched by tributaries.
But no river is more fed by confluent currents than is that of a life which draws to itself all resources of knowledge and grace. (Text.)
(1798)
LIFE FROM DEATH
Clinton Scollard, in The Outlook, draws a lesson from the new-fallen snow:
The evanescent wonder of the snow
Is round about us, and as in a cloud—
A vestiture inviolate—we walk.