vi ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



III. STUDY OF DANDELION (Continued) PAGB 



B. Fimctional relations, or relations of dependence on and 



adaptation to physical environment 15 



1. Dependence 011 environment 15 



2. Adaptation to environment 16 



3. Educational aim and value of such study of life and 



function 30 



a. Interest is intensified and sympathy developed. 

 6. Appreciation of beauty beauty of function 



and fitness as well as beauty of form and 



color is cultivated. 



c. Prepares for better understanding of unity of 



nature. 



d. Gives a broader knowledge, a better insight 



into relations. 

 IV. STUDY OF HIGHER RELATIONS OF DANDELION 31 



A. Relation to man's physical nature 32 



1. As a medicine and food. 



2. As a weed to combat. 



3. As a plaything for children. 



B. Contributes to man's higher nature .32 



1. Cultivates the appreciation of beauty. 



2. By its life and symbolism appeals to ethical nature. . 



3. Is one of the pages of the " manuscript of God." 



CHAPTER II. 

 The Study of the Rabbit. 



I. INTRODUCTION 38 



A. Relation to previous chapter 38 



B. Reasons for selecting rabbit 39 



C. Plan followed determined by 40 



1. Aims. 



2. Psychological laws. 



3. Conditions, such as age and capacity of pupils. 



D. Aims and material for study of rabbit 42 



E. Helpful literature . . . . 43 



F. Order of lessons 45 



G. Preparatory observational study of . 46 



Positions. 



Movements. 



Eating. 



Cleanliness. 

 Breathing. 

 Burrowing. 

 Disposition. 



