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deal of what Nature is doing around him, and perhaps feels a sort of 

 admiration of it at times, and it may be even goes further still, and 

 compares some two or three of the things he has seen in his mind ; 

 nevertheless he cannot comprehend them ; he knows not the why and 

 wherefore of them, nor even what they mean. Of course he is com- 

 paratively uninterested, and most of what he sees is lost upon him. 

 It merely passes before his eyes and over his mind without leaving a 

 trace behind. 



It may seem a piece of unwarrantable presumption in one who freely 

 acknowledges his comparatively limited experience to speak thus con- 

 fidently on a subject of such transcendent importance as that of edu- 

 cation, but feeling strongly on this point it is my earnest desire to aid, 

 in however lowly degree, in calling that attention to the subject which 

 it surely deserves, but has certainly not hitherto received. 



May I be permitted, in conclusion, to express my fervent hope and 

 trust that the day is not very far distant in which the Sacred Volume 

 of Nature — every letter of it, remember, bearing the autograph Divine 

 — will no longer be allowed to remain a sealed book to any village 

 scholar in Great Britain. Then many a poor labourer will go forth to 

 his daily toil cheered by its glorious utterances written in his head 

 and on his heart, while its ever open pages invite him to a fresh lesson 

 of love from day to day, to his great and endless benefit, and to his 

 Creator's higher glory. 



Hugh A. Stowell. 



Christ Church, Manghold, Isle of Man, 

 August 31, 1860. 



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 the stale of Natural History education in 1791 and 1860. There must be a public 

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ME. BROAD BENT has received instructions to SELL BY AUCTION, 

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