THE MAN OF DEEDS. 



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distant mountain village ? He must be especially the 

 man of deeds. He is called upon like every other 

 citizen to keep sacred the arts of peace. But higher 

 than all else stands the enhanced morality of the peo- 

 ple, which can be so well inculcated through the school 

 garden. 



CLOSING WORDS OF DR. SCHWAB. 



I am conscious of having found, in the idea devel- 

 oped in these pages, nothing that is new. I have per- 

 haps only given expression to what many others feel 

 darkly, to what still others recognize clearly ; and, 

 indeed, what others have partially expressed before me 

 if not in this connection, or with the same sharpness, 

 a thought which is floating as it were in the air. I have 

 attempted to write as cheap a treatise as possible 

 about my view of the subject, as to what a rational 

 school garden might be able to offer, and what it really 

 will offer. My design is to stimulate to the creation of 

 school gardens fitted to time and place. That the idea 

 here expressed does not possess all the perfection of 

 which it can be imagined capable, is clear to me. I 

 hope, therefore, that other men who are superior to me 

 in endowment, knowledge and experience, may seize 

 upon the idea, improve it and develop it ; but, above 

 all things, may they help to turn the thought into acts ! 



In Austria, unquestionably, the new school law will 

 be brought into the closest connection with the regen- 

 eration of the fatherland. A new spirit will penetrate 

 the public school, and inaugurate a new time. 



Already fresh life is infused into the domain of in- 

 struction in theory and practice. City and country, 

 every community, the whole world of teachers, every 



