the first supplied; and that in each case the progression must be by
slow degrees to impressions more nearly allied.[19]

[19] _Education_, page 132.

5. The geometrical forms illustrated in this gift are:--

{ Sphere.
{ Cube.
Solids. { Cylinder.
{ Double Cone. } Seen in motion.
{ Conoid. }

Planes. { Circles.
{ Squares.

6. The sphere and cube are sharply contrasting forms, and the cylinder
illustrates the connecting link between the two, possessing
characteristics of both.

"The cylinder is the first example Froebel gives of the intermediate
transition--forms connecting opposites, which he explains as the very
ground plan of Nature, and on which his fundamental law of contrasts
and connection of contrasts, the law of all harmonious development and
creative industry, is based."[20]

[20] E. Shirreff.

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Points to be noted in each New Gift.

"That which follows is always conditioned upon that which goes
before,"[21] says Froebel, and he makes this apparent to children
through his educational processes; the gifts show this idea in
concrete form.

[21] "We cannot evolve what has not first been involved."

In entering upon a consideration of the second gift one thing cannot
fail to impress us, and that is the continuous development in each new
set of objects placed before the child; together with an increase of
difficulty or complexity which is never without a corresponding
forethought, careful arrangement, and attention to logical sequence;
thus the newly introduced objects can never seem unnatural to him.

We shall find that in every new gift or occupation there is always a
suggestion of the last, enough to make it a pleasant reminder of
knowledge gained and difficulties surmounted, and so the child sees
not everything painfully strange, but something which at least recalls
to his mind his former friend and familiar playfellow.[22]

[22] "Nothing charms us more than the recognition of the old
in the new. The man who hurries through a foreign city,
indifferent and inattentive to the passing crowd, feels a
quick thrill of pleasure when in the midst of all the
strangers he recognizes a familiar face." (E. Minhinnick.)

Method of Attack in First Exercise.

In the first lesson with the second gift the child will quickly see
the similarities between his former wor