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effects upon the future life of the pupils to create this de- 

 mand ; to set forth the honest claims of biology to the world 

 at large ; and to act as the accredited pioneers of an advance 

 in education which, in the world's school at large, and 

 amongst thinking men and women, has already sown in- 

 tellectual wealth and freedom broadcast, and with an unspar- 

 ing hand. My plea is that this advance merely represents 

 the call of the age for school-training in things biological ; 

 and that the exigencies of modern life demand the enrolment 

 of the science amongst the means whereby the true end of 

 educative effort may be fulfilled. To aid, encourage and 

 foster the demand for this training, should constitute no 

 unimportant duty of the earnest reformer in educational 

 matters. His labour in this respect will assuredly earn the 

 gratitude of future years ; for the effects of the teacher's 

 work tend to perfect the most noble part of man's nature 

 that " mental lighte " of Spenser, which 



.... is heavenly borne and cannot die, 

 Being a parcell of the purest skie ! 



