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mocked us by commanding an impossibility. The truth is, there is boundless hope to be gathered from observation of the normal child’s disposition, exhibiting as it does a most remarkable affinity with the three great departments into which we divide up what we call the Divine Revelation : namely, Goodness, Beauty, and Truth. We have fallen into a lamentable error by dissociating these three in education ; conceiving of art and scientific research as if they had no connexion with the source of all truth and of all beauty. Against this error we may now notice a reaction which,