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AIMS OF NATURE-STUDY 167 



(Oh, how the sight of the things that are great enlarges the eyes!) 

 Lead me out of the narrow Hfe, to the peace of the hills and the skies." 



We may not retain in the school curriculum any subject unless 

 it accomplishes some object of education better than any other 

 subject and contributes also to the whole purpose of education. 

 Nature-study is incomparable in its training of the powers of 

 observation, unrivalled as discipline in the complete thought 

 process and an exceptionally powerful factor in the moral and 

 religious development of the individual and the race. 



