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1 6. The love of truth increases with the pursuit of it. 



17. A false art is that art which violates the natural 

 ethical and moral law. 



1 8. The aesthetic sense is developed by the repeated 

 discovery of the fitness of things. 



19. Nature study is not the end of arts and science; 

 it is the beginning of them. 



20. Higher ideals are developed by the discovery 

 of the laws underlying the fitness of things. 



21. Expression of appreciation of things unknown 

 to us is much ado about nothing. 



22. The things we appreciate are a measure of our 

 standards of judgment. 



23. Ideals do not float around in the air on winged 

 words; they are a promise within us of better things, 

 because of our growth towards what is ideally good. 



24. Encouragement, not discouragement, accom- 

 panies healthy growth. 



25. Character is developed through contact with 

 natural forces, and by the exercise of the will in doing 

 that which ought to be done, and doing it in the right 

 way. 



26. We all sooner or later have to become conscious 

 of three laws: (a) the law of love, (&) the law of lib- 

 erty, and (c) the law of necessity. 



27. Liberty is an achievement; and belongs to 

 those who have earned it, by showing their fitness 

 for self-rule. 



28. To realize the existence of the law of necessity, 

 is the most important step towards that moral freedom 

 of personality which we call character. 



29. Neatness and accuracy in our work, like per- 



