Pestalozzi traces in the “Swan Song” how the seeds of love, of confidence, of gratitude, of brotherly feeling, of patience, of obedience, and of the sense of duty unfolds in the heart of the child, through the tender and discreet care of the mother, and by means of family intercourse. He also shows how, out of these instinctive domestic affections, religious sentiments are born in the human soul. “It is life that educates,” and this is life’s method of moral culture. “On the intellectual side, it is again life that educates; for life develops, in turn, the power of receiving impressions, the power of speaking, and the power of thinking.” Let us see how these are developed. “The power of receiving impressions by observations and experience furnishes the child with ideas and sentiments” (4: p. 378). This power, which Pestalozzi calls “_Anschauung_,” is the starting-point of all intellectual activities. “These impressions excite and animate in the mind its inherent principle of self-development.” Therefore, “with perception comes the necessity for expression, and naturally the first attempts of the child are imitative, but the greatest need is that of human speech,” which is “an extension of the power thought” (1: p. 739). The desire and capacity for speech is parallel to the development of vocal organs and acquirements of knowledge through perception. “The power to speak does not proceed from the knowledge of language, it is rather the knowledge of language which proceeds from the power to speak.” Language is a vital mental power only when it has grown out of the child’s own life. But forcing the language from outside upon the child “neither develops the powers of the mind nor produces anything but an empty verbiage” (4: pp. 378-379). Nevertheless, “Art ... can greatly relieve the tedium of Nature’s methods in teaching the child to speak, and education must investigate the means, and present an orderly succession of exercises adapted to that end.” For instance, “the mother must allow the charms of seeing, hearing, feeling, and tasting to have full play in the child. These sense impressions will awaken the desire to give them expression, that is, to speak. The mother continually varies her tones, speaking now loudly, now softly, sometimes singing, and sometimes laughing, so as to awaken the desire to imitate. The sense of sight must also be enlisted by exhibiting different objects and associating the impressions with fitting words. Each object should be presented in the greatest possible variety of relations and positions, and care should be taken that each impression, matured in the child’s mind through perception, is properly expressed” (1: pp. 739-740). In this way the vocal organs are to be trained, a good command of words is to be given, and the power of expressing related ideas to be cultivated.