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The new application of natural history. 



The study of evolution gives us comparable 

 knowledge. We learn the route by which we 

 have come, and we secure new light on hygiene 

 and disease as well as on structure, new mean- 

 ings on sex and on breeding ; and all these must 

 mark departures in the discussion of social and 

 moral questions. As man is part of the evolu- 

 tion, so do we begin to see his problems in a 

 biological aspect and to study them in the light 

 of their origin and tendencies. 



New attitude toward institutions and affairs. 



The evolution point of view has modified 

 teaching and the school. It has enforced the 

 importance of the natural order, and of original 

 and personal experience. With the great mul- 

 tiplication of human interests, the school has 

 become overburdened and complex. We shall 

 return to simplicity ; and the child will begin 

 with his environment and himself, rather 

 than with the universe and some one else. 

 This point of view is working itself into the 



