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RECENTLY INSTRUCTOR IN NATURE STUDY AT THE STATE NORMAL
SCHOOL, OSWEGO, N.Y.

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COPYRIGHT, 1900,

BY D. C. HEATH & Co.

Plimpton Press

H. M. PLIMPTON & CO., PRINTERS & BINDERS,

NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A.

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3. Educational aim and value of such study of life and

function

a. Interest is intensified and sympathy developed.
b. Appreciation of beauty-beauty of function
and fitness as well as beauty of form and
coloris cultivated.

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d. Gives a broader knowledge, a better insight
into relations.

IV. STUDY OF HIGHER RELATIONS OF DANDELION
A. Relation to man's physical nature

1. As a medicine and food.

2. As a weed to combat.

3. As a plaything for children.

B. Contributes to man's higher nature

1. Cultivates the appreciation of beauty.

2. By its life and symbolism appeals to ethical nature.
3. Is one of the pages of the "manuscript of God."

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