PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS 



people would be afraid to breathe fresh air 

 if they did not find the process tediously 

 described and justified in the text-books 

 of physiology. 



Yet the natural landscape is full of 

 poetry and of wit, and of a divine beauty. 

 For, in a certain good sense, this beauty 

 is divine, considering its immediate origin 

 from God; and in such a way may claim 

 a pre-eminence over the beauty of music 

 or of sculpture. Does not such beauty have 

 its pedagogic value? And can it not be 

 turned to educational account as well as 

 could free theaters or concerts? To both 

 questions we may answer yes. 



The precise methods of turning these 

 resources to account can not be so readily 

 pointed out, seeing they have not been the 

 subject of endless experiments, as have 

 music and art study. Yet, at first sight, it 

 seems that there would be no very great 

 difficulty in adapting the ordinary methods 

 of schoolroom art study to the utilization 

 of our richer resources in landscape. A 

 general direction toward beautiful things 

 is about all that can be given anjrway. 

 And it would seem quite as easy to tell the 

 child that the river which he sees and loves 



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