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die. Some other law must go with the law of food-getting and this, we find is 

 the law of reproduction, — that is producing again creatures to take the place 

 of those which die. This law is without doubt the most wonderful law we know 

 of, and since reproduction is a long, cumbersome word, we may call it simply, 

 the law of life. 



Man has endeavored by his inventive skill, to duplicate some of the laws of 

 Nature, as, for example, by means of the camera to reproduce a likeness of an 



MANUAL TRAINING WORK 

 A few of the 1-13 Wren houses made by the boys in manual training classes. All of these houses were 

 put up and over half have occupants. — H. P. Brown, Instructor, Berwyn, 111. 1913. 



object; but this is very far removed from the real law of life. A photograph, 

 although a perfect and exact reproduction of its kind, has no power to make 

 either another photograph or another object similar to the one of which it is a 

 copy. In Nature, the law of life demands that each living creature be endowed 

 with power to give life to another creature like itself. 



