CHAPTER XIII 



PLANT LIFE 



I desire to emphasize both of these words. 

 The teacher should assist the pupil to study and 

 to love plants, not parts of plants, but the plant, 

 root and all. The flower may be the most attrac- 

 tive, but it should not monopolize attention. 

 Rather let it, however beautiful, be an attraction 

 toward the entire personality of the plant. 



A sweet and beautiful face wins us, not to the 

 face alone, but to the person, and to the individu- 

 ality. We love many persons whose countenances 

 are neither beautiful nor sweet, but whose char- 

 acteristics, whose personal qualities are so sweet 

 and so beautiful, that they seize our affection, 

 because they are so exactly and so mysteriously 

 adapted to fill a vacant place in our own soul. 

 We crave exactly these, and none but these will 

 supply our need. We find such winning char- 

 acteristics in habits, in kindness of heart, in gen- 

 eral culture, and especially in the manifestation 

 of good will toward us. Some persons are so 

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