8 TO " OUR BOYS " 



not to classify them, but to admire them and 

 adore God. Study the sky! Study water I 

 Study trees! Study the sounds and scents of 

 Nature! Study all these, as beautiful in them- 

 selves, in order to recombine the elements of 

 beauty; next, as allegories and examples from 

 whence moral reflections may be drawn; next, as 

 types and tones of feeling, etc. ; but remain (your- 

 self) in God-dependence, superior to them. Learn 

 what feelings they express, but do not let them 

 mould the tone of your mind, else, by allowing a 

 melancholy day to make you melancholy, you 

 worship the creature more than the Creator." — 

 Kingsley's Letters. 



There is one thing I must still impress upon you, 

 and that is to love all things that possess life. 

 Indeed, you need not stay even at that, for you 

 should love to learn something concerning any 

 subject or object of interest. Although dead 

 subjects, such as Geology, Archaeology, Coin and 

 Stamp Collecting, and so on, do not present that 

 living interest which is supplied by animals and 

 plants, each in their way help to build up the 

 story of the world and enable us to piece it 

 together and make a chain the like of which has 

 no serious rival. 



You will be told of what to see in the country, 

 how to know your country, and so on in succeed- 

 ing chapters, and to these I hope you will devote 

 attention. 



