Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth CenturyEdson, Milan C. (Milan Chappel)
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Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century
Edson, Milan C. (Milan Chappel)
Agriculture, Cooperative; Cooperation; Utopias
This primary course of educative work is continued, by taking up
consecutively, in regular order; on a separate series of sheets, life
size, naturally colored photographs, of fishes, reptiles, insects,
birds, animals, and people. Later, geological specimens, glass, rocks
and minerals. To be followed by pictures of life in the vegetable
kingdom, flowers, fruits, plants and trees. Again, with photographs of
works of art, paintings and statuary.
Interspersed with this general course, are short lessons, offered to
produce true images, in the hearing, smelling and tasting areas of the
brain.
First, by repeating at different times, while the cargosita is in
motion, with its cargo of infantile passengers, all of the best musical
compositions, executed vocally, and on the electric piano, the giant
orchestrion, the violin, and a great variety of other musical
instruments. These lessons in hearing, are repeated and varied, until
the children have become familiar with most of the sounds in the tone
scale. The mental sound images produced, have been associated with the
happy scenes of this merry kindergarten life. By this interweaving of
pleasant sensations, they have become more firmly fixed in a healthy
group of brain cells, thus planted and established in the hearing areas
of the brain.
Second: In a similar manner, the taste sensations and images, are
produced and registered. Day after day, one by one, tiny packages of
confections, beautifully wrapped in brilliantly colored papers, are
given to the children while on their cargosita excursions. These
interesting lessons are continued, until the entire range of savors has
been exhausted. The curiosity, excitement, pleasure and eagerness
exhibited by children, in these tasting investigations, is something
surprising.
Third: Flowers, beautiful flowers of all kinds, are largely used in
producing sensations and images, to be registered in the brain areas of
the sense of smell. The essence of odors which cannot be gotten from
flowers, are used to saturate small sachet bags, of charming color and
artistic design. These bags make attractive play-things for the
children. While using them they soon, unconsciously, become very
skillful in detecting the slightest differences between the various
odors. Brain areas usually left barren, are now filled and developed.
Later in life, when children come to study the different sciences, this
ability to detect the presence of the slightest odor, becomes
invaluable, in the difficult work of classification. With such an
unusual equipment, they will be far in advance of those pupils, who have
not wisely, left uncultivated this important sense of smelling.
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