118 NATURE STUDY. 



We must ever keep in mind that all other aims are 

 subordinate to one, the highest. The study of nature 

 misses its highest purpose unless it leads the child from 

 nature up to the Author of nature. Unless the seen 

 points the child to the unseen, unless from care and 

 protection he looks to a Protector, through function and 

 purpose and plan he sees a Planner, nature has not re- 

 vealed to teacher and pupils its greatest thought, its 

 grandest lesson, eternal law, eternal unity. 



