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disclose the relative independence of the mind of any particular sense, its own large contributions to every sense, and the very secondary weight in intellectual development of simply organic and hereditary forces, than the very wonderful triumph, on the one side, of instruction, and, on the other, of native power. The identification of physical and intellectual unfolding incident to normal growth quite disappears, and we find the mind reaching its goal by means peculiar to itself.

Lesson 62 - 2. Acquisition of knowledge Resemblance - p.278

(6) In connection with this development of perception, a work which is never quite finished those acquirements are made which combine in harmonious exertion mental and muscular action. Here belong graceful and dexterous movement, all forms of skill and art, and above all the learning of language. The perfect mastery in articulation of any speech is so great an attainment, that it is very rarely successfully accomplished but once in life. The thorough acquisition of a foreign tongue in middle and later life is deemed impossible. The following of the letters on the printed page with the eye, and the easy, instant and exact utterance of them with the rapid and complex play of the muscles involved, is, indeed, the acme of accomplishment in a combined mastery of body and mind. This work, which the child does unconsciously, the laborious efforts of later life fail to repeat. Most busy and fruitful are these early years of childhood. Scarcely again do we learn so many and so perfect lessons in so brief a period. What the painter by slow analysis is able to reverse, presenting spaces, directions, distances, forms, on a plain surface of varying colors; rendering the landscape, with an area of many square miles, on a canvass of scarcely more square inches; the child of a few years has learned to do with far more perfection, opening up and out the simple vignette of the retina, till it fills in every part the magnificent