LITTLE The C. G. I. is very apt to be converted at the first re- 

 JOURNEYS vival, outrivaling all other " seekers," and when warm 

 "weather comes, falling from grace and dropping eas- 

 ily into scofferdom. The Humboldts, like Thoreau, 

 never had any quarrel with God, and they were never 

 tempted to go forward to the Mourners' Bench. Origin 

 and destiny did not trouble them ; predestination and 

 justification by faith were not in their curriculum; 

 foreordination and baptism were to them problems 

 not to be taken seriously. 



By studying religions in groups and incidentally, they 

 learned to distinguish the fetich in each. They read 

 Greek mythology side by side with Judean mythology 

 and noted the similarities. 



The intent of Tutor Campe was to give these boys 

 a scientific education. Science is only classified com- 

 mon sense. To be scientific is to know differences to 

 distinguish between this and that. Every successful 

 farmer has traveled a long way into science, for sci- 

 ence deals with the maintenance, of life. To know 

 soils, animals and vegetation is to be scientific. 

 But when the average farmer learns to transmute 

 compost into grass and grain, and these into beef, he 

 usually stops, content. 



To be a scientist in the true sense, one must love 

 knowledge for its own sake, and not merely for what it 

 will bring on market-day, and so the jHumboldts were 

 led on through the stage of wanting to make money, 

 to the stage of wanting to know the why and wherefore. 

 <J It will be seen that the education of the Humboldts 

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