rison to impress difference are best
illustrated when both differences and agreements have to be
noted, i. e., similarities and dissimilarities."

"Discrimination is the necessary prelude of every
intellectual impression as the basis of our stored-up
knowledge or memory."

Definition of the state of mind significantly named
_Indifference_,--"the state where differing impressions fail
to be recognized as distinct."

"The retentive power works up to the height of the
discriminative power; it can do no more."
ALEX. BAIN.

"The most delightful and fruitful of all the intellectual
energies is the perception of similarity and agreement, by
which we rise from the individual to the general, trace
sameness in diversity, and master instead of being mastered
by the multiplicity of nature."
FRIEDRICH FROEBEL.

"It is by comparisons that we ascertain the difference which
exists between things, and it is by comparisons, also, that
we ascertain the general features of things, and it is by
comparisons that we reach general propositions. In fact,
comparisons are at the bottom of all philosophy."
LOUIS AGASSIZ.

READINGS FOR THE STUDENT.

From Cradle to School. _Bertha Meyer_. Pages 132, 133.
The Kindergarten. _Emily Shirreff_. 11, 12.
Lectures on Child-Culture. _W. N. Hailmann_. 26, 27.
Froebel and Education by Self-Activity. _H. Courthope Bowen_.
138-40.
Kindergarten Guide. _J_. and _B. Ronge_. 3-5.
Koehler's Kindergarten Practice. Tr. by _Mary Gurney_. 47-49.
Kindergarten at Home. _Emily Shirreff_. 47-49.
Kindergarten Culture. _W. N. Hailmann_. 46, 51, 54.
Childhood's Poetry and Studies. _E. Marwedel_. Part II. 16-42.
Pedagogics of the Kindergarten. _Fr. Froebel_. 69-107.
Paradise of Childhood. _Edward Wiebe_. 9-11.
Law of Childhood. _W. N. Hailmann_. 33-35.
Kindergarten Guide. _Kraus-Boelte_. 15-27.
Education of Man. _Fr. Froebel_. 107-10.
Kindergarten Toys. _H. Hoffmann_. 12-17.
Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth. _W. K. Lethaby_. 50, 65.
Stories of Industry. Vols. i. and ii. _A. Chase_ and _E. Clow_.
Ethics of the Dust. _John Ruskin_.
Mme. A. de Portugall's Synoptical Table, as given in "Essays on the
Kindergarten."

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