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And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, 

 and the mare's foal and the cow's calf, 



And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the 

 pond-side, 



And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, 

 and the beautiful curious liquid, 



And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all be- 

 came part of him." 



The nature-attitude. 



It may be said that although I admit the 

 educational merit of affairs and industries, 

 I nevertheless place the main emphasis on 

 the study of nature. This, of course, is true. 

 How much of this attitude is the result of per- 

 sonal inclination, I cannot know ; but I pur- 

 posely put the emphasis here because nature is 

 the necessary condition of our lives, and on the 

 nature-basis we may build the superstructure. 



The content-work. 



The school effort may be roughly thrown 

 into two categories, the content-work and 

 the expression-work. The content-work is the 

 subject-matter. It is the acquisition-work, the 



