2O THE TEACHING BOTANIST 



the veteran may differ from a raw recruit : and its 

 methods differ from those of common sense only so 

 far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from 

 the manner in which a savage wields his club. The 

 primary power is the same in each case, and perhaps 

 the untutored savage has the more brawny arm of 

 the two. The real advantage lies in the point and 

 polish of the swordsman's weapon ; in the trained 

 eye quick to spy out the weakness of the adversary ; 

 in the ready hand prompt to follow it on the instant. 

 But, after all, the sword exercise is only the hewing 

 and poking of the clubman developed and perfected. 



" So, the vast results obtained by Science are won 

 by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes, 

 other than those which are practised by every one 

 of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life." 

 (/'Science and Education," 1894, p. 45.) 



To the equality of the Sciences with the older sub- 

 jects in Education, a large and increasing part of the 

 educational community is giving its assent. This 

 finds its best expression not only in the curricula of 

 our most progressive colleges, which put them on an 

 equality in their own courses by making all subjects 

 alike elective, but also in the newly-proposed Har- 

 vard entrance requirements, which, with restrictions 

 made necessary by the imperfect way in which most 

 of the Sciences are at present taught in the schools, 

 require some one of them to be offered for entrance, 



