INTRODUCTION 21 



proper order. Nature-study then becomes more than a simple 

 amassing of facts ; it involves also the organization into a rational 

 and consistent whole. Science itself is nothing more. This kind 

 of image-growth is educational because it is rationally continuous. 

 No other kind of imaging is worth the trouble. The demand for 

 details by an ever-incompleted image impels that research which 

 always marks the true student of nature. 



