Excerpt from Lessons on Shells: As Given in a Pestalozzian School, at Cheam, Surrey
As years advance, the study of Natural His tory may be confined to those who manifest a peculiar taste for it, or who exhibit little dispo sitiou for classical pursuits. For, as every age has its intellectual claims, so also has every grade of talent. The schools of the highest re putation have generally been conducted too ex elusively to the advantage of the superior class of minds. The fine porcelain has been beautifully moulded and delicately pencilled, but. The coarser clay, has been almost entirely neglected. Yet many a young man who will never shine in the Senate House or the Schools, may yet pursue Natural History with success, and find in such pursuits improvement for his mind, a refuge from ennui, and a substitute for sensual pleasures. There is much truth as well as benevolence in a remark, I once heard from an amiable coadjutor of Pestalozzi; Tout terrain est bon si l’on sait le cultiver.
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