LITTLE pastoral and agricultural stages so should the child. 

 QURNEYS As a people we are now in the commercial or competi- 

 tive stage, but we are slowly emerging out of this into 

 the age of co-operation or enlightened self-interest. 

 It is only a very great man one with a prophetic vis- 

 ion, who can see beyond the stage he is in. The stage 

 we are in seems the best and the final one otherwise 

 we would not be in it. But to skip any of these stages 

 in the evolution or education of the individual seems 

 a sore mistake. Children hedged and protected from 

 digging in the dirt develop into "third rounders," as 

 our theosophic friends would say, that is, educated non 

 comps vast top-head and small cerebellum people 

 who can explain the unknowable but who do not pay 

 cash. Third rounders all fit only for the melting pot! 

 Q A tramp is one who has fallen a victim of arrested 

 development and never emerged from the nomadic 

 stage ; an artistic dilettante is one who has jumped the 

 round where boys dig in the dirt and has evolved into 

 a missnancy. 



Young Linnaeus skipped no round in his evolution. He 

 began as a savage, robbing birds' nests, chasing but- 

 terflies, capturing bees, beetles and bugs. He trained 

 goats to drive, hitched up the calf, fenced his little farm, 

 and planted it with strange and curious crops. 

 Clergymen once were the only schoolteachers, and in 

 Sweden when Linnaeus was a boy, there was a plan 

 of farming children out among preachers that they 

 might be educated. Possibly this plan of having some 

 one beside the parents teach the lessons is good, I can- 

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