The kindergarten building gifts . No. 56. Showing CurvUinear Gift divided vertically: (a) intoand lb) into quarters. sand and one haphazard sensations wall thrustthemselves upon the young child. If, however, wehave trained his mind to work systematically andlogically, he either fits these accidental sensationsinto the categories in which they belong, or dropsthem out of his consciousness; we must, therefore,expect the next new cylindrical Gifts to not onlyrepeat the curved line of a circle, but to divide thatcurved line into half and quarter rings, by theaxial planes passing through the entire
The kindergarten building gifts . No. 56. Showing CurvUinear Gift divided vertically: (a) intoand lb) into quarters. sand and one haphazard sensations wall thrustthemselves upon the young child. If, however, wehave trained his mind to work systematically andlogically, he either fits these accidental sensationsinto the categories in which they belong, or dropsthem out of his consciousness; we must, therefore,expect the next new cylindrical Gifts to not onlyrepeat the curved line of a circle, but to divide thatcurved line into half and quarter rings, by theaxial planes passing through the entire cylinder.(See Figs. 56, 57 and 58.) The thickness in thiscase being uniform as in the case of the Sixth Gift. 202 THE KINDERGARTEN BUIEDING GlETS. It was for these reasons that the so-called CurvilinearGift described above, has been selected as the SecondGift in the series of Curvilinear Gifts. (See Fig. 56.)It will readily be seen that when this Gift is turnedinside out or its inner is outered that it makes a. No. 57. Showing Curvilinear Gift divided horizontally into halves. three-inch cube, thus connecting it not only withthe cylinder but also with the cubical series. This Gift lends itself best to the construction oftunnels, towers, observatories, railway stations,band-stands and similar structures, where thecurved line preponderates, yet these are more pleas-ing when part of the Gift has been placed so that its
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