Eden garden

— But the forgetfulness was not entire; the memory lingered long of an age of harmony, of an Eden-garden left behind.

— Nature, in endowing her little ones - in planting in the heart of each of them an Eden garden, fairer than the terrestrial paradise which Adam lost - reads a great lesson to their guides and teachers.

— What a strangely apt picture in a few words (if we like to take it so) of the long pilgrimage of the Human Race, its early and pathetic clinging to the tradition of the Eden-garden, its careless and vigorous boyhood, its meditative youth, with consciousness of sin and endless expiatory ritual in Nature's bosom, its fleeting visions of salvation, and finally its complete disillusionment and despair in the world-slaughter and unbelief of the twentieth century!