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primarily, loves science. They are interested 

 in the things that they see. By and by they 

 begin to arrange their knowledge and impres- 

 sions, and thereby to pursue a science. The 

 idea of the science should come late in the 

 educational development of the youth, for 

 the simple reason that science is only a human 

 way of looking at a subject. There is no 

 natural science, but there has arisen a science 

 of natural things. At first the interest in 

 nature is an affair of the heart, and this atti- 

 tude should never be stifled, much less elim- 

 inated. When the interest passes from the 

 heart to the head, nature-love has given way to 

 science. Fortunately, it can always remain an 

 affair also of the heart, but the dry teaching of 

 facts alone tends to divorce the two. When 

 we begin the training of the youth by the teach- 

 ing of a science we are inverting the natural 

 order. A rigidly graded and systematic body 

 of facts kills nature-study ; examinations bury it. 

 Then teach! If you love nature and have 

 living and accurate knowledge of some small 

 part of it, teach! Do not fear your scientific 

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