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man nature, complex and late; the worship of nature is primi- 

 tive, the admiration of human nature is advanced ; man as a 

 creature loves and worships nature, as a rational being - , he 

 recognizes human nature as God-inspired and God-illumined, 

 and so makes self-sacrifice for the benefit of the race. 



Nature is elementary, human nature is higher ; nature is 

 the primary school, human nature the academy ; nature is for 

 youth, human nature for manhood. 



The relative characteristic of country and city may be stated 

 as follows: 



Man was born in the country ; humanity in the city. The 

 home was organized in the country ; society in the city. Re- 

 ligion is originated in the country ; Christianity in the city. 



It is customary for people to say that " God made the coun- 

 try and man made the city." This is only a three-fourths 

 truth. The whole truth is, — God made the country, and He 

 and His children built the city. Yet with all the advantages 

 accruing to a child from the higher and human side of the 

 city life, he lacks the earlier, fundamental and essential ad- 

 vantages of country life. In the city nature is not free and 

 rampant, but is repressed and circumscribed ; therefore, the 

 child does not feel the thrill that comes from shade of wood 

 and breath of field, from song of bird and ripple of stream, 

 from glow of sky and purity of air, these are all occasional 

 and incidental. 



Furthermore, in addition to being deprived of nature's in- 

 fluences, the impressions of human nature must be somewhat 

 unwholesome and uninspiring when one is constantly surround- 

 ed with apparent means of defense, locked doors and fendered 

 windows ; when one household knows not its nearest neigh- 

 bor ; when the occupants of one flat are unacquainted with 

 those of the flat below ; when one's comrade may be mere 

 chance acquaintances when there is no place to romp and 

 rove and revel and rejoice ; when the hard pavement and 

 heavy brick wall debar one from close contact with the breast 

 of mother earth. 



And so it seems that the children of the city are deprived of 

 the naturalizing influence of the country, while the children 

 of the country are deprived of the humanizing influences of 

 the city, each needs the other, and both make for complete 

 life. 



As we consider the boy on the farm, we find that he is in 

 close communion with nature herself, knows her touch, reads 

 her language, feels her life, and delights in her manifesta- 

 tions. The beauty of field and wood beautifies his life, and 

 inspires him with noble aspirations. He studies her forces, 

 phenomena and effects ; he learns the economy she practices 



