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If we teach him to see man as a synthesis of the animal species spread over the earth, we help to bring him into a true relationship with other living beings standing below him in the scale of creation. Until the age of eleven or twelve, the mainspring of all Nature-study should be the relationship of the human being to the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. 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Heute möchte ich noch insbesondere bemerken, daß in diesem Lebensalter zwischen dem neunten und zehnten Jahre das Kind eigentlich erst anfängt, sich von der Welt zu unterscheiden, daß es also vorher eigentlich in seinen Vorstellungen, in seinen Empfindungen keinen Unterschied macht zwischen den Dingen der Welt und sich selbst. 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