man,  and  at  last  man  requires  a  whole  world,  I  mean
the  next,  in  CHcder  onl  j  to  ÜTe.
§50.
But  by  the  same  fancy  which,  like  the  son,  paints
the  colours  on  the  leaves,  are  they  also  again  removed
from  them«  The  same  mistress  of  the  robes  dresses,
and  also  undresses ;  consequently  there  is  for  diildren
no  ever-enduring  play  or  plaything.  Therefore  do
not  leave  a  plaything  which  has  lost  its  charm  long
before  the  eye  consdous  of  the  change ;  lay  it  by.
After  a  long  time  the  dismissed  fitvouiite  will  be  re^
ceived  with  honour«  The  same  is  to  be  said  of  pic-
ture-books ;  for  a  poetic  animation  is  as  necessary  to
the  picture-book  as  to  the  play-drawer*  A  few  words
about  that.  The  proper  picture-books  f or  A  B  C
children  do  not  consist  of  a  sequence  of  unknown
plants  and  animals,  whose  differences  only  the  in«
struoted  eye  perceives,  but  of  historical  pieces  which
present  the  actions  of  animals  or  men  taken  from  the
child's  circle.  Then  this  living  gallery,  in  whose
universal  history  the  child  can  more  clearly  paint  the
individual  being  than  the  reader  or  author  can  in  the
all-embracing  generality  of  poetry,  may  be  exalted
into  historic  groups;  for.  instance,  into  a  Joseph
among  his  brethren,  selling  or  recognising  him,—
into  a  Hector's  farewell  of  wife  and  chUd,  and  such
hke  subjects.
Chüdren  -  those  of  one  or  two  years  old  excepted.
