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Show Technical Education. It is on his mother's knee that the child, "eyes raised to heaven, and small hands folded fair," is taught to raise his voice to "Him who all things sees;" whilst walking ut her side that lie learns to turn his ibut aside lest he should injure the worm, so marvclously made, and to watch the opening of the budding leaf; of her he asks, "What is the sun?" and to her he says, "Mother, what is there beyond the skies?" And sho reads to him out of this fair book of Nature, and the instruction she gives him is wrapped in veneration for that Great Power whose law, by which all around is governed, gov-erned, is science; and the boy starts as a student, with the best of all incentives incen-tives to the acquirement of knowledge the love of inquiry. |