134 HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 



ers, are the pleasures of observing, and especially 

 the importance of observing as much as possible. 

 If you have missed the charms of even a pocket 

 microscope, you have to that extent been pitiably 

 blind. It is not, as too often believed, the loss of 

 a certain science in which you maintain that you 

 are not interested, and which you do not care to 

 understand, but a loss of pleasurable seeing, 

 which you can only appreciate when you begin to 

 learn what you have been for so long losing. 

 " Having eyes yet seeing not : " telescopically 

 and microscopically blind to all but a small part 

 of the delights of " both great and small." I ex- 

 tend to you, not alms in your blindness, but a 

 sincere appeal for a self-cure. Get at least a sim- 

 ple pocket-microscope, and apply it as persistently 

 as possible to seeing eyes that they may see more. 

 Having done that, see some more, and more. 

 We learn to see by intelligently seeing, not by 

 merely looking. 



And what a beautiful world is this, for seeing 

 things. The Infinite does not know how to make 

 a better. He pronounced this one " good." He 

 has given us His best. Shall we be lacking in 

 appreciation through indifference? Let us see 

 everything possible with our unaided eyes, and 



