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diluted and sugar-coated science. This will 

 pass. Some of it is mere sentimentalism. 

 This also will pass. With the changes, the 

 term nature-study may fall into disuse; but the 

 name matters little so long as we hold to the 

 essence. 



All new things must be unduly emphasized, 

 else they cannot gain a foothold in competition 

 with matters that are established. For a day, 

 some new movement is announced in the daily 

 papers, and then, because we do not see the 

 headlines, we think that the movement is dead; 

 but usually when things are heralded they have 

 only just appeared. So long as the sun shines 

 and the fields are green we shall need to go to 

 nature for our inspiration and our release; and 

 our need is the greater with every increasing 

 complexity of our lives. 



Would you advise me to take up nature-study 

 teaching? 



Yes, if you feel the "call" to it; otherwise, 

 no. I would have only those teachers teach 

 nature-study who are well qualified for it, as I 



