42 HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 



a chrysalis. There was nothing remarkable in 

 that, for I knew what it was. But wonderful to 

 relate, providentially I deem it — as I held the ob- 

 ject in my hand a butterfly slowly emerged, then 

 fluttered in my fingers. I was more than pleased 

 with its beauty. I do not know whether I was 

 or was not a youngster with an imagination, but 

 suddenly the spiritual view of a new or of another 

 life struck me. I saw in this jewel born from an 

 unadorned casket some inkling of immortality. 

 Yes, that butterfly breaking from its chrysalis in 

 my hand shaped my future career." 



As the child never truly makes such instruction 

 his own if it does not find response in his heart, so 

 pitiable as it is, many older "children in the kinder- 

 garten of God " never utilize their most valuable 

 inheritance, because it does not reach the heart. 



The deed to such possession of the world is love 

 of nature, the love that you must win by love and 

 by the telling of it. You must have a love for 

 nature before you can win it for her from others. 

 Then " both head and heart and both in earnest." 

 You must wear the boots for the child first ; you 

 must get him into your world and to understand the 

 language of nature, for indeed " Nature speaks a 

 varied language." She may have her surprises, but 



