lesson in scientific forestry. They became acquainted LITTLE 

 with the bugs, beetles, birds and squirrels. They cared JOURNEYS 

 for the horses, cattle and fowls, and best of all they 

 learned to wait on themselves. 



Campe told them tales of history of Achilles, Peri- 

 cles and Caesar. Then they studied Greek that they 

 might read of Athens in the language of the men who 

 made Athens great. They translated " Robinson Cru- 

 soe" into German, and Campe's translation of " Rob- 

 inson Crusoe" is today a German classic. It was all 

 natural easy, interesting. The day was filled with 

 work and play, and joyous tales of what had been said 

 by others in days agone. 



" Teach only that which you know and never that 

 which you merely believe," said Rousseau. 

 There is still a cry that religion should be taught in 

 the public schools. If we ask "What religion? " the 

 answer is, " Ours, of course ! " 



Religious dogma, being a matter of belief, was taught 

 to the Humboldts as a part of history. So these boys 

 very early became acquainted with the dogmas of 

 Confucianism, Mohammedism and Christianity. They 

 separated, compared and analyzed, and saw for them- 

 selves that dogmatic religions were all much alike. To 

 know all religions is to escape slavery to any. In study- \ 

 ing the development of races these boys saw that a 

 certain type of religion fits a certain man in a certain 

 stage of his evolution, and so to that degree religion is 

 necessary. 



An ethnologist is never a Corner Grocery Infidel. 



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