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"From unity through duality to the oneness of two: this is the shape of the element." "Elementary substance goes into production with the advent of love." What is eventually worked out then in this essay, in the interest of live science as knowledge for the sake of understanding and in particular as the eightfold pattern of love viewed as the product of elementary substance - is love as a power, love which reproduces, love which draws us towards a common good, love which teaches and enlightens; then love that overcomes (the strength of which lies in its overabundance), love that limits and inhibits for a purpose and so as to bring something about, love that leads and demonstrates authority and finally love that rests in itself and seeks no end outside of itself. All the live sciences written by this author are early books.

- For those who know how to behave in the presence of the poetic spirit. - * As human beings we develop and evolve. Poets have the gift to make this intelligible, especially if we understand development as 'development against'. By means of verse a poet can give us a running commentary of his own growth and to the extent that he lives among us his work, in this genre, can ease our own passage through the contemporary doldrums. Verse can be a handy technique for explaining personal reality in terms of experience. Those who accept the poetic gift will find the present work helpful in that direction and to that end.

These little essays document my thought during a time when I participated in the daily work of a school and had diverse opportunities for acquainting myself with the concerns and aims of parents, teachers and pupils. I took an especial interest in the education of our own three children, who became acquainted with both State Education and some home schooling. The youngest, for a few years, attended at a Waldorf School, where I myself participated as a parent. I was able to compare what went on there with State Education and my thinking about education grew to some extent out of that variety of experience. Some of the topics: Teacher authority, Creative education, How to admit guilt, Instruction for Religion, the Good child, Teacher training.