X 
HAROLD’S DISCUSSIONS. 
Nature study is old. It is tlie universal 
book written for all, and in a language that all 
can understand. The ancient Greeks made 
considerable progress in correct observations. 
Aristotle was the foremost. He gave us the 
results of their study in ponderous books. 
Then followed an age when nature was dis¬ 
counted and man was turned to dogmas. He 
was soon plunged into the thousand years of 
the Hark Ages. When nature study revived, 
intelligence and personal liberty began at once 
to increase, and, with the study, have steadily 
moved forward. 
In this age when life is so complex and 
loaded with so much that is false, the child 
should not be deprived of its birthright, but 
should be led to the simplicity of nature, and 
drink deeply of her fountains of unadulterated 
truth. It would make his life better and 
J. W. Troeger. 
La Grange, III. 
