168 HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 



the eye of the naturalist for his facts, and the 

 naturalist needs " the light that was never on sea 

 or land " for his life. 



The quarry is antagonistic to the castle. The 

 one must be depleted for the other. Yet both 

 are co-operative ; the first is useless and the sec- 

 ond impossible without the other. The mine 

 means something, it has its real value and beauty 

 brought out only in the hands of the assayist. 

 The two are antagonistic, yet co-operative. So 

 you, teacher, must not merely go to nature for 

 things, things, things, nor to books for words, 

 words, words. One part of your mental make-up 

 must be to lay hold of the real things of nature ; 

 the other must be to let in the illumination of 

 books. Then only will you see facts in their true 

 relations. 



Remember always that the result is not to be 

 naturalists and scientists, nor yet literati, but 

 living men and women. 



