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native tongue, an acquaintance with the natural sciences 

 and agriculture, for these are subjects which lead us into 

 the solar kingdom and will teach us what are its de- 

 mands. Without the sun neither we nor any of earth's 

 natural products could continue to exist, and natural 

 science is therefore the very key to our whole life. Se- 

 condly physics, chemistry and mathematics as three auxi- 

 liaries should be employed, the first to enable the student 

 to recognize the fixed and everlasting, principles of nature; 

 the second to help him to understand the essence of 

 cosmic matter, as also how and what conditions that 

 matter is moulded and modified; the third as a prac- 

 tical means of reckoning without which no one branch 

 of human affairs could with any convenience be car- 

 ried on. 



After these things follow geography and knowledge 

 of modern languages and modern peoples. Geography is 

 a science which makes us feel at home all over the 

 earth and language is the universal, enriching and culti- 

 vating medium for the exchange of thought. 



Knowledge of history plays a passive role in educa- 

 tion, teaching rather what not to do; and is of course 

 quite powerless to point the road of progress to any na- 

 tion, progress being too largely the result of accident 

 and at the mercy of unforeseen events. It is impossible 

 to foretell what cosmic life has in store for any race. 



As to the classical languages, to make these the ob- 

 ject of study is in effect to turn cemeteries into schools, 

 and epitaphs into text-books of learning. It is as though 

 we disentombed the corpses of the dead and by the bo- 

 nes and fragments tried to judge whether these bodies 

 when alive were beautiful or not, healthy or sickly, how 

 old they were when death mowed them down, and all 

 about them. 



Divinity is a psychical science. It reconciles our 

 earthly life and the common faiths of the human beings 

 around us, and therefore it is not at all strange that 

 many nations recognizing as the Creator, one God never- 



