" Nature Study aims to cultivate in the child what may 

 be termed the elementary equivalent of the genuine scien- 

 tific spirit, so that out of his nature fondness for things 

 about him shall come an enthusiastic, truth-seeking, rev- 

 erent attitude toward nature, vpith boldness to question 

 her, patience to study her, and readiness to be taught by 

 her."— A. C. Boyden. 



"As the child understands his own environment he is 

 prepared to appreciate geography as the study of the home 

 of man. The thoughts of the life throbbing through the 

 plant and animal, and of the forces at work about us, all 

 in perfect harmony, and for definite purposes, are sug- 

 gestions of infinite law." — A. C. Boyden. 



" There are two forms of Autumn : there is the misty 

 and dreamy autumn : there is the vivid and brilliant 

 autumn : almost the difference between the two sexes. 

 The very wox-d autumn is both masculine and feminine. 

 Has not every season, in some fashion, its two sexes ? Has 

 it not its minor and major key, its two sides of light and 

 shadow, gentleness and force perhaps. All that is perfect 

 is double ; each face has two profiles, each coin two sides. 

 The scarlet autumn stands for vigorous activity : the gray 

 autumn for meditative feeling. The one is expansive and 

 overflowing ; the other still and withdrawn. Yesterday 

 our thoughts were with the dead. To-day we are celebrat- 

 ing the vintage," — Amiel's Jodrnal. 

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