Author's Preface 



Regarding the education of the young, Huxley 

 strongly advised that children of the ages of nine 

 and ten should be instructed in the infinite wonder 

 and majesty of the works of God, and that the in- 

 struction should be given upon Sunday, side by 

 side with the lessons from the Bible. 



The author has attempted to follow out the plan 

 advocated by Huxley, and she offers this book with 

 the earnest hope that these stories will ''awaken the 

 minds of the young to the infinite wonder and 

 majesty of the works which are proclaimed His, and 

 teach them those laws which must needs be His 

 laws and therefore of all things most needful for 

 man to know." ^ 



The children who begin their observation of 

 nature in this way may well be among those who 

 will take honors in Nature's university; for accord- 

 ing to Huxley's belief, ''those who take honors in 

 Nature's university, who learn the laws which 

 govern men and things and obey them; are the 

 really great and successful men in the world." ^ 



Great men and women are what the world is call- 

 ing for, but before the man or woman can become 

 great the child must have been started upon the 

 right road. 



1 Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, 1871. 



