CHAPTER IX 



SCIENCE IS NOT ALL 



We all want science in our colleges, science 

 in our high schools, and we want it systemati- 

 cally taught. Our educational periodicals should 

 head their departments of science, as science. We 

 teach science, then why not, in the name of com- 

 mon sense, call it science. 



But that is not all. We want, previous to it 

 and with it, hand in hand as closest companions, 

 another important factor, a daily communion with 

 the natural things of this world. 



Before and during our study of science we need 

 an acquaintance with nature like that of a child 

 with his mother. 



" To teach young people or old people how to 

 observe nature, is a good deal like trying to teach 

 them how to eat their dinner. The first thing 

 necessary in the latter case is a good appetite ; 

 this given, the rest follows very easily. And in 

 observing nature, unless you have the appetite, 

 the love, the spontaneous desire, you will get little 



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