72 THE NATURE-STUDY IDEA 



Of these four factors, the money is the least. 

 No institution is so poor that something cannot be 

 done if only the first three requisites are present. 

 Time by time, perhaps little by little, the money 

 will come. The work must be born, grow and 

 mature. Only flies and their like are born full 

 size. 



Any good extension work is only a diligent 

 effort to meet the needs of the people. If 

 conditions seem to demand a certain kind of 

 effort, that effort is made. No theory of peda- 

 gogics is concerned in it. Years hence, perhaps, 

 it will be possible to found a theory on what shall 

 have been accomplished. 



From small beginnings the work has grown 

 year by year. This is the most important fact in 

 the entire movement. The work has entered 

 fields that at first were not in sight. It has 

 demonstrated the value of various kinds of effort, 

 and has dropped those which seem to be of least 

 efficiency. The Cornell extension work, as it is 

 being prosecuted to-day [1902], may be displayed 

 as follows: 



I. Extension Teaching: Endeavoring to give 

 a new point of view and a quickened enthusiasm 

 to those who live in the country. 



(^) Nature-Study : Teaching the youth to see 

 and to appreciate whatever is nearest at hand, 

 thereby bringing him into sympathy with the 

 conditions in which he lives. This work is pros- 

 ecuted by several means : 



