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prettiness or with outward attractiveness. Real 

 beauty is deeper than sensation. It inheres in 

 fitness of means to end as well as in striking 

 features. The child should see the object itself 

 before he sees its parts or its attributes. Teach 

 first the whole bug, the whole bird, the whole 

 plant, with something of the way in which it 

 lives. The botanist may well devote his life to 

 a cell, but the layman wants to know the trees 

 and the woods. 



I dislike to hear people say that they love 

 flowers. They should love plants; then they 

 have a deeper hold. Intellectual interest should 

 go deeper than shape or color. Teachers or 

 parents ask the child to see how "pretty" the 

 object is; but in most cases the child wants to 

 know how it lives and what it does. 



It is instructive to note the increasing love for 

 wild animals and plants as a country grows old 

 and mature. This is particularly well illus- 

 trated in plants. In pioneer times there are too 

 many plants. The effort is to get rid of them. 

 The forest is razed and the roadsides are 

 cleaned. The pioneer is satisfied with things 



