ons of the method of discovery become
rules for directing, in studies of this character, the education of the
young. Aristotle and Bacon have recognized and enforced upon the adult
mind its two master methods of advance by reasoning. But our children
have their knowing also to attain to, their discoveries to make, their
logic of proof, on occasions, to employ. Shall we lavish all the
treasures of method on those who have passed the formative stage of
mind, and acquired the bent of its activities? Rather, we think, the
true intellectual method--combining both Baconian _induction_ and
Aristotelian _deduction_--yet waits to realize some of the best of the
application and work for which its joint originators and their
co-workers have been preparing it; and that perhaps one of the highest
consummations of this one method of thought may yet appear in the
carrying forward, with more of certainty, pleasure, and success in their
attaining of knowledge, the lisping philosophers of our school-rooms and
our firesides.

From one source, disconnected latterly from those to which I have thus
far called attention, there has arisen a decidedly progressive movement
in the direction of right teaching, and one that, at least in
geographical studies, promises soon to result in a consummation of great
importance. Though Pestalozzianism, as further developed by the Prussian
educators and schools, has never yet realized the completely inductive
and consecutive character here contended for, it has been tending in a
degree toward such a result; and this is perhaps seen in the most marked
way in the method of teaching geography developed by Humboldt and
Ritter, and represented in this country by their distinguished pupil,
Professor Guyot. This method subordinates political to physical
geography, proceeding from facts to laws, and by setting out with the
grand natural features of the globe, leads the learner to comprehend not
only the existence, boundaries, capitals, and strength of nations, but
the reasons why these have come to be what they are. As tending in the
same true direction, we should not fail to mention also the
faithfully-executed series of raised or embossed maps of the late Mr.
Schroeter, presenting not only the profile but the comparative
elevations of the land-surfaces or continents and islands, and, in
detail, of the several political divisions of the globe, thus at once
making the ocular study of geography _real_, and not as for