HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 6l 



and binds all together in universal sympathy and 

 brotherhood. 



" He prayeth best who loveth best 

 All things both great and small ; 

 For the dear God who loveth us, 

 He made and loveth all." 



Nature study impresses one with the import- 

 ance of the so-called lowly things. The balance 

 may at many a point be easily upset. In the 

 natural world as well as in the spiritual this is 

 true. " For God hath chosen the foolish things 

 of the world to confound the wise ; and God hath 

 chosen the weak things of the world to confound 

 the things that are mighty ; and base things of 

 the world, and things which are despised, hath 

 God chosen, to bring to naught things which 

 are. 



How often is this exemplified in the study of 

 nature. A world all lilies, butterflies, goldfinches, 

 peacocks, generals, lawyers, or policemen would 

 not be a well balanced world. You must have corn 

 and potatoes and chickens, and men with the 

 hoe. Such truths of the balance of nature and of 

 civic life should be correlated with nature study. 

 There is a mighty lot of such truth expressed in 

 this statement by Richard Jeffries : 



