The education of man / by Friedrich Froebel ; translated from the German and annotated by W. N. Hailmann.
- Fröbel, Friedrich, 1782-1852. Menschenerziehung. English
- Date:
- 1906
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The education of man / by Friedrich Froebel ; translated from the German and annotated by W. N. Hailmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![sake of building a new one with the saine material, but insisted that the new formations should be made (by suitable changes) from the old ones. Thus he avoids haste, and awakens thoughtfulness and patience, and, on the other hand, inspires respect for existing things, and teaches at an early period not to build from the ruins of de- stroyed things, but to build up in an orderly manner from the things that are,”—Tr.'] The debasing illusion that man works, prodiices, creates only in order to preserve his body, in order to secure food, clothing, and shelter, may have to be en- dured, but should not be diffused and propagated. Pri- marily and in truth man works only that his spiritual, divine essence may assume out ward form, and that thus he may be enabled to recognize his own spiritual, divine nature and the innermost being of God. What- ever food, clothing, and shelter he obtains thereby comes to him as an insigniticant surplus. Therefore Jesus says, “ Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven,” i. e., the realization of the divine spirit in your life and through your life, and whatever eise your finite life may require will be added unto you. Again, Jesus says, “My meat is to do the will of him who sent me,” to work and accomplish whatever God has enjoined me to do and as he has enjoined me to do. Thus the lilies of the field—which, in the ordinary human sense, do not toil—are clothed by God more splendidly than Solomon in all his glory. Buf does not the Uly put forth leaves and blossoms; does it not in its whole outward being reveal the inner being of God? The fowls of the air, in a human sense, neither sow nor toil, but do they not in their song, in the building](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28129076_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
