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220 The Century of the Child
House, and so on. If the teacher of history
were taking up Napoleon, he could read in the
French hour a work like Vigny’s Servitude
et Grandeur Militaire. For the Dutch War
of Independence, Motley’s history, Goethe’s
Egmont, and Schiller’s Don Carlos could be
read. A whole book could be written on plans
like these, with indications how the different
fields of knowledge could supplement one
another, how history, geography, literature,
and art could be intertwined just as on the
other side geography and natural science.
Similarly it would show how different teachers
could be of use to one another in communicat-
ing to their scholars a fuller knowledge.
I should like to propose an hypothesis for
discussion and examination that I have formu-
lated, after a wide experience in story-telling,
both as a listener and as a narrator. If I might
put together in a statement, without intending
to prove it, the result of my experience in the
subject named, I should say that the mental
food which is most attractive for the child, also
gives the most nourishment. This is the fact
that the physiology of our day has proved in
the case of the organic existence of the child.
Pedagogy is beginning, consciously or uncon-
sciously, to apply it to the mental sphere, yet
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