VALUES OF NATURE STUDY 31 



happiness, that is replete with dynamic possibilities 

 of fresh life and activity in directions forever new." 

 Nature is given as the great matrix with which we are 

 to create, and to go through life with no attempt to gain 

 a knowledge of it, with no effort to learn its possibilities, 

 is dull, dead atheism. The child that puts forth creative 

 effort to make the world better, the child that plants a 

 seed or cares for the life of an animal, is working hand in 

 hand with nature and the Creator, and what higher reli- 

 gious development can we desire than that he become 

 the " reflected image of God"? 



