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observing powers, they have at the same time greatly 

 widened the range of your mental vision by the 

 variety of objects which you have been compelled to 

 look at and examine. The same methods which 

 have been so full of benefit to you here can be 

 continued by you in after life. And be assured that 

 in maintaining them in active use you will take the 

 most effective means for securing success in the 

 careers you may choose to follow. 



But above and beyond the prospect of any material 

 success there is a higher motive which will doubtless 

 impel you. The education of your observing faculty 

 has been carried on during your introduction to new 

 realms of knowledge. The whole domain of Nature 

 has been spread out before you. You have been 

 taught to observe thousands of objects and processes 

 of which, common though they may be, you had 

 previously taken no note. Henceforth, wherever you 

 may go, you cannot wander with ignorant or un- 

 observant eyes. Land and sea and sky, bird and 

 beast and flower, now awaken in you a new interest, 

 for you have learned lessons from them that have 

 profoundly impressed you, and you have discovered 

 meanings in them of which you had never dreamed. 

 You have been permitted to pass within the veil of 

 nature, and to perceive some of the inner mechanism 

 of this world. 



Thus, your training in science has not only taught 

 you to use your eyes, but to use them intelligently, 

 and in such a way as to see much more in the world 

 around you than is visible to the uninstructed man. 

 This widened perception might be illustrated from 



