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The most healthful indication in present-day educational systems is the tendency to look toward Nature as the base of all essential culture. Nor is this a new phase. There were days when the natural world was made the foundation -for the most elaborate and delicate mythological and religious systems history knows when rays of twisted rain were deemed fit weapons for a god, and heaven was a Grecian... More

The most healthful indication in present-day educational systems is the tendency to look toward Nature as the base of all essential culture. Nor is this a new phase. There were days when the natural world was made the foundation -for the most elaborate and delicate mythological and religious systems history knows when rays of twisted rain were deemed fit weapons for a god, and heaven was a Grecian mountain. The world grew gradually out of this childhood, but always there remained with it a sense of the pulsating harmonies of nature. This became educationally submerged for a period in artificialities of more or less cultural value, but its undercurrent still ran powerfully beneath. It remained for the acumen of twentieth century science to find true balances, and to reread the pages of the physical worlds great book with new insight. Greater than myth or fable, lovelier than the most graceful pagan imagery could delineate, truer than the most acute symbolism could represent are these new meanings of star and clod, of cloud and flower.
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