OF EDUCATION I I 



properties of these things, and other products of 

 nature, he was to remain a naked savage, sharing 

 the world equally with the wild and hungry 

 beasts that howled around him. He was at liberty 

 to wait a thousand years, or a thousand centuries. 

 Houses to protect him by night from the lion 

 and the tiger, and from the cold storm, would 

 not spring up out of the ground for him. Nor 

 would clothing or needles and thread, nor tools for 

 the architect grow on trees. Nature had done all 

 that ought to be done, and could wait for man to join 

 his work with hers. Then, and not till then, could 

 the arts have even the rudest beginning. This was 

 the one condition of progress, and is to-day the one 

 condition of progressive civilization. 



In the last analysis, man's observation in nature, 

 or what we call nature study, is the sure and only 

 foundation and source of all civilization, the source 

 of all science, all art. The savage who first observed 

 that rocks are brittle, and can be broken down to a 

 cutting edge, was the father of all sculptors. His 

 stone hatchet, so useful at that time, is of no value 

 now except as a curiosity and a help in the study of 

 archaeology. We can hardly realize how rude were 

 the beginnings of ail man's grandest achievements. 



Architecture is one of the oldest and most impor- 

 tant of the arts. Through innumerable little improve- 



