The Kindergarten magazine . child will draw, and how his thought will ascend. We arcoften dull of perception as to the wonders of the childsmind. At the upper left there are plants, with much appre-ciation of beauty of curvature, and below the seasons. Spring,Summer, Autumn, and Winter, are well symbolized. At theupper right the power to draw whole scenes is shown in twoe.\am])lcs. The drawings show the growth of thoughtand representation; the wings of the butterfly carry thechildren up the golden stairs, and in the sky an angel islound with wings and a golden crown. Heaven lies aroundus in ou
The Kindergarten magazine . child will draw, and how his thought will ascend. We arcoften dull of perception as to the wonders of the childsmind. At the upper left there are plants, with much appre-ciation of beauty of curvature, and below the seasons. Spring,Summer, Autumn, and Winter, are well symbolized. At theupper right the power to draw whole scenes is shown in twoe.\am])lcs. The drawings show the growth of thoughtand representation; the wings of the butterfly carry thechildren up the golden stairs, and in the sky an angel islound with wings and a golden crown. Heaven lies aroundus in our infancy. Thus far we have considered onl\ the Kindergartenprinciples of creative self-acti\it)-, how the external mayl)c made internal through the stud\ of t\pe forms connected .Ir/ rrimiplts of the Kindirgarten. 413 with tlic eiu ironinciU, ami liou the internal may be madeexternal through the various means of building, tablet andstick laying,, modelinj^ and ilrawin^. The) were selected from man\ similar drawings by Kin-. derijarten chiUlren. kiiulU lent !)>• Miss M. K. Lombard,formerly one of the tlircctors of theKindergartens in Bos-ton maintained by Mrs. (Juincy A. Shaw. There is ai\«)ther great principle b\- which Irocbcl wasgoverned, lie has called this the law of contrasts, or the 414 ^^^ Principles of the Kindergarten. law of opposites. It v\oulcl seem to be in its ultiniation thelaw of harmony, for it requires always a mediation of oppo-sites. The first law of all phenomena is the law of oppo-sites. This is the endowment of every essence that comesinto existence, and particularh of man as called into con-sciousness. He, in spite of his inner relation to God andnature, stands as an indi\-idual essence in the relation ofopposite to the universe of nature on the one hand, and tounit}% or God, on the other. The law of connection is givenat the same time with the law of opposites. Connection(joining b}- union of members), or the balance of all exist-ing objects, is
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