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298 UNITY
Interest in Mathematics and in the Principle back
of it, may also be awakened and educated- through the
"Nature Studies" now so popular. All plant life is
built through a wonderful and beautiful mathematical
activity. Change the relationship or proportion of elements
and a new growth results. Mr. Bur bank has introduced
to us many such "magical" changes.
The microscope reveals a veritable Fairy Land of
mathematical wonders. Dissolve common salt in water.
Watch a fraction of a drop dry on the microscope plate,
and you will see crystals form and jump into line, so to
speak, until the form of salt is re-established.
These thoughts and suggestions are presented not
with the notion of expressing anything approaching *
scientific essay. They are lovingly thrown out as possible
helps to such parents and teachers as believe in
Divine Design expressing through all manifestations.
If children are led to see Order, Wisdom and Omnipresence
inseparable from Wholeness, they will by a
strong natural tendency grow into harmony with such
Ideas, for their Spirits and Souls as well as their bodies
respond in rythmic movement to the Divine Harmony of
the One Great Cause—Their Father. "Suffer little
children to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom
of Heaven." "And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have
ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
thou hast perfected praise." Matt. 21:16.
Trust the children. Carry them as the Good Shepherd
carries the lambs, in the arms of Faith and Love,
close to the Great Heart which is "Life and Love and
Beauty."
Thoughts are winged like thistle seeds
And wind-carried, fall and breed
From their heedless parents far,
Where fit soil and culture are.
—Lowell.
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