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unless he is in possession of good methods of 

 scientific research ; unless he has learned to 

 observe, to describe with exactitude, to dis- 

 cover mutual relations between facts seemingly 

 disconnected, to make inductive hypotheses 

 and to verify them, to reason upon cause and 

 effect, and so on. And none can be a good 

 manual worker unless he has been accustomed 

 to the good methods of handicraft altogether. 

 He must grow accustomed to conceive the 

 subject of his thoughts in a concrete form, to 

 draw it, or to model, to hate badly kept tools 

 and bad methods of work, to give to everything 

 a fine touch of finish, to derive artistic enjoy- 

 ment from the contemplation of gracious forms 

 and combinations of colours, and dissatisfaction 

 from what is ugly. Be it handicraft, science, or 

 art, the chief aim of the school is not to make a 

 specialist from a beginner, but to teach him the 

 elements of knowledge and the good methods 

 of work, and, above all, to give him that general 

 inspiration which will induce him, later on, to 

 put hi whatever he does a sincere longing for 

 truth, to like what is beautiful, both as to form 

 and contents, to feel the necessity of being a 

 useful unit amidst other human units, and thus 

 to feel his heart at unison with the rest of 

 humanity. 



As for avoiding the monotony of work which 



