Excerpt from Discourse Preached at Needham: October 24, 1841 Two objects are here united the most dissimilar in: their effect on the human mind; the one delightful and attractive, the other gloomy and repulsive. We asso ciate every thing charming in our idea of a garden; but decay and darkness, separation and desolation are the natural associations with the tomb. Gardens, in which every rare and beautiful flower and every vari ety of delicious fruit has been cultivated, have among all civilized nations been highly valued. It was in a garden that our first parents were created, surrounded with delightful groves, fragrant and beautiful flowers, and delicious fruits. It is not therefore strange that their descendants should have cherished a desire to perpetuate the blissful scene of innocence and joy. The Romans were passionately attached to their exten sive and richly cultivated gardens. Their opulent men had their gardens so situated in relation to their dwel lings, that in every position in which they sat or reclined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.