MIRACLES {Mason}
Children should be brought up, too, to perceive that a miracle is not less a miracle because it occurs so constantly and regularly that we call it a law; that sap rises in a tree, that a boy is born with his uncle’s eyes, than an answer we can perceive comes to our serious prayers; these things are not the less miracles because they happen frequently or invariably, but because we have ceased to wonder about them.
—C.M. Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education
• butterfly conservatory at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden •
August 15, 2014