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390 STUDY AND TEACHING OF NATURAL HISTOB...
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" changes With such of Nature ministration and the — ever varying- seasons of the year .
" Thou , O Nature , Healest thy wandering and distempered child !
Thou pourest on him thy soft influence , Thy sunny hues , fair forms and breathing sweets ,
Thy melodies of woods , and winds , arid waters ! Till he relent , and can no more endure
To he a jarring and dissonant thing Amid the general dance and minstrelsy ;
But , —bursting into tears , wins back his way , His angry spirit soothed and harmonized
By the benignant touch of love and beauty . " Ainin the words of Humboldt— The mere contact with
ga , _expression Nature , the of issuin deep g meanin forth in g to my the na open tive lang air , u t hat t which erms in by das an t
Freieexercises a soothing and calming influence on he sorrows and on _, the passions of men , whatever may which be the region they
inhabit , or the degree of intellectual culture they enjoy . " to Natural Huskin the largeness says History , " , The of ma their k tru e men e apprehension and grea tle t sciences and modes just , more t i perception n p es ro peciall portion of y
; true , mfiniteness as another of contemporar the things y th ey iter can h never as rem know arked . " , tha If t it each be
new life b art y , science many , y ears ., i g . e uage . with , mak , w how e hich us much we live learn more , prolongs force in the same our it
no measure t be es o p f ecia sidereal lly said ti of me , the study of nature more , that if trul may y and earnestlrsuedit would afford leasure and interest through
moment y pu of , our existence . p every I will conclude with a few remarks on the importance of
tance this stu with dy in nature its relation is one of to the art essen . A tial deep conditions and living of acquain the very
neg existence lected or of forgotten all high , art poetry . Wherever , painting , this sculpture truth , and has archi been
tecture appreciated I need scarcely have it sunk must speak into , h unreality ave for all felt who that and have degra Nature ever dation with trul . y Of loved her poetry awful and ,
birthri sublimity ht . and Alfred , her unnumbered de Vigny causes beauties his is especiall Stello , to y the recognize poet ' s
grandeur himself g as nor a poet harmony : iC Because which there does is not in cause Nature in no me beautyj a heti nor c
, , prop swell thrill— my which eyelids does with not tears fill divine my soul and with inexp a licable deep 1 . emotion " and It is to estimate the valueof the studof
Nature impossible to the painter . over As - the indispensable means of attaining y
390 Study And Teaching Of Natural Histob...
390 STUDY AND TEACHING OF NATURAL HISTOBY _,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/30/
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