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of which daily life is made up. For the reason, then, 

 that science brings us nearer to nature, the training 

 of the child in the elements of science is to be pre- 

 ferred to the training in the classics as a help to deal- 

 ing with the realities of the living world. It is no 

 rash prophecy that people will grow to see this more 

 and more clearly, and that an increasing preference 

 will be given to the direct study of nature and espe- 

 cially to physics and chemistry with so much mathe- 

 matics as is necessary to make the elements of these 

 sciences intelligible. 



It will be seen more and more clearly that in the 

 training of the intellect the three cardinal objects are : 

 observation, memory, and the welding power of 

 reason. The schools of to-day rely mainly on mem- 

 ory; the schools of the future will summon to their 

 aid observation and practice in inductive and deduc- 

 tive reasoning. On this power of reasoning the 

 faculty of judgment depends, and on the exercise of 

 this faculty hangs the maintenance of life and the 

 productiveness of the mind. Before a school can 

 become truly educational it must develop in the high- 

 est possible degree the ability to lead the scholar 

 from the facts he has observed and remembered to 

 larger facts as yet unknown to him. In this process, 

 which must become a habit of mind, lies the spirit 

 of research. 



It will be said that research is for the few and not 

 for the many ; that the ordinary scholar has naught 

 to do with the spirit of science. But while it is true 

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