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shape of talk to students :

" There are two pictures in our
man in the Universe. One is that of It*
picker with eyes fixed on the ground, who is
prodding heaps of rubbish with the tip of his
stick, or raking up the earth here and there
to see what he can get. The other is that of a
man who, almost forgetting that he has a body
(or bodily needs), is gazing on earth and skies
to find a resting place for his soul in the infin-
ite scheme of things. The two men may seem
to be entirely apart; but they meet somewhere
and their faculties and their hands are joined
to carry on the great work of civilization/'

" Our nature seems to combine inherent
vices and virtues—as the tasteless sap in a
tree combines the bitter, the sour and the sweet
in an inchoate state to appear in the fruit as a
distinct taste. If natural disposition is the
work of Nature, in what sphere is Education to
operate ? Firdausi has said that a plant bitter
by nature will not yield sweet fruit even though
planted in the Garden of Paradise and watered
with honeyed wine. "

" Man is a planner in Nature; and there
are various patterns of his plans and plan-
nings. On the wrong side they range from
robbing neighbours to conquering nations;