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    SO^py A1 TO TEACHING O^ NATURA L HISTOBY...

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    Australia but ,, above ; Canada all , how or invaluabl other e woul hitherto d it not uncultivated ; prove to settlers ion in I reg

    required An acquaintance for , thehealth with , any the growth nature of , of different the soil and lants temperature and trees

    , y p , would time it preven would t indicate many dis the astrous modes speculations of cultivation , while which at should the same be

    purs practical ued under knowledge different of geology , circumstances which mi . ght Some be acquired valuable by and the also

    system of co-operative instruction I have suggested ? would be of incalculable value

    . stud The of most Nature impor in education tant consideration and its influence , of all is on the the use individual of the

    character y . Lessons on natural , objects given in the open air great restrain would value be t and found to monotjony them delig _irt htful of the to schoolroom children ing the , as habits , and a relief woul of observation d from prove the of

    and the love , of _Nature which encourag tend to unfold the noblest faculties in of search the mind of , wild while flowers , at the or same curious time insects , the long woul country d be of walks the

    , utmost said : _^ Jf use we . in wish their , rural physical , walk education s to , Ho children . Kingsley , to find any wonder good has , well we in

    must every teach insect , them sublimit , and y in we every can teach hedge them -row , , the records of past worlds , in every pebble , and boundless fertility upon the limite barren d

    that shore sphere they , and in which : so , by be they teaching fit hereafter now are them , make to to be mak rulers them e full faithfu over use much l of in that . few " things

    Iluskin may also , takes a very decided view on this subject . He u one man who is fitted for the study of wordsfifty

    says , , perpetual are fitted for simp the le stu and dy of reli things ious , and deli were ht intended in watching to hav the e a

    processes , , , or admiring , the creatures g of g the natural universe . Deprived of this source of leasurenothing is left to them but

    ambition or dissipation , and p , the vices , of the upper classes of Europe areI believechiefly to attributed to this single cause . "

    stud all Wh ages at of more Na and , ture , all healthful ? classes _" , It , , is refining coul only d by possibl , and _labour y elevating be that devised thoug recreation ht than can the for be

    made y healthy , and only by thought that labour can be made happy Surel , both and tho the ught two and cannot labour be will separated be admirably with com impunity bined in . "

    this practical y study of the external world . Goethe has somewhere beautifully expressed the idea , that there is no charm

    m and ore so powe unfailing rful in amid its soothing all the influence trials of life on , the and soul as a of shield man ,

    the against springs the ennuL of _existen which ce in , than later th years at which , if unresisted is derived , poisons from the all

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/29/