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to place us in our proper relationship with na- 

 ture, and we are seldom taught to understand its 

 commonest manifestations. How many "edu- 

 cated " persons in modern society can explain, for 

 instance, what causes the rain to fall, why the sea 

 is salt, or what impels the wind to blow? 



We inherit but little knowledge and much 

 prejudice and ignorance, and during a great por- 

 tion of our so-called educational period our minds 

 are still further prejudiced and warped by the 

 learning instilled into them against all other con- 

 flicting knowledge. We are not trained suffi- 

 ciently into simple receptivity of all classes of 

 knowledge and taught to observe and appraise 

 and compare and deduce for ourselves of our own 

 initiative. 



Our great difficulty in mature life is to see 

 clearly through the mist in which we have been 

 enveloped in our youth and to " depolarize " our 

 minds from bias and symbolic jargon. Without 

 some determined effort to see things from outside 

 our one-sided selves, there is but little possibility 

 of our discerning anything as it really is. 



Education ought to impart the means of acquir- 

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