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PREFACE
THE following lectures were really given, in substance, at a
girls' school (far in the country); which in the course of various experiments on the possibility of introducing some better practice of drawing into the modern scheme of female education, I visited frequently enough to enable the children to regard me as a friend. The lectures always fell more or less into the form of fragmentary answers to questions ; and they are allowed to retain that form, as, on the whole, likely to be more interesting than the symmetries of a continuous trentise. Many children (for the school was large) took part, at different times, in the conversations; but I have endeavoured, without confusedly multiplying the number of imaginary * speakers, to represent, as far as I could, the general tone of comment and enquiry among young people.
It will be at once seen that these Lectures were not intended
Their purpose was merely to awaken in the minds of young girls, who were ready to work earnestly and systematically, a vital interest in the subject of their study. No science can be learned in play; but it is often for an introduetion to mineralogy. possible, in play, to bring good fruit out of past labour, or show sufficient rensons for the labour of the future.
•I do not mean, in saying imaginary,' that I have not permitted to myself, in several instances, the affectionate discourtesy of some reminiscence of personal character : for which I must hope to be forgiven by….
The ethics of the dust ten lectures to little housewives on the elements of crystallisation by John Ruskin hardcover 1875