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INDEX.

Abbott, Rev. J., on the redeeming power of common schools, page 456.
Abdominal Supporters, their use considered, 109.

Academy, New York Free, 386.

Accidents, cause and prevention of, 298.

Adams, John Q., accustomed to the daily reading of the Scriptures, 222.
Adams, Solomon, on the redeeming power of common schools, 455.
Agriculture requires education for its successful prosecution, 269.
Air, want of, causes death, 85. Necessary to purify the blood, 89.
What composed of, 89. Quantity respired, 91, 93. How changed
in respiration, 86, 89. Once respired will not sustain life, 91. Im-
portance of to health, 98. Abundance of for man's use, 99. How
freed from impurities, 100. Estimated loss of money and life from
breathing impure, 299, 438. An excellent medicine, 108.
Alcott, Dr., on breathing bad air, 103.

Alphabet, how taught, 426. A better method, 426-427.

Anecdote of the Indian, 203, 225. Of Laura Bridgman, 157-159. Of
Dr. Franklin, 103. Of a practical teacher, 256. Of a German school-
master, 416. Of a farmer plowing with three horses, 254.

Apoplexy, how caused, 90, 92. Death by, 90, 93.

Apparatus and Library, 398. May be useful to adults, 399, 400.
Appurtenances to school-houses, 401.

Arithmetic, often poorly taught, 433. Its morals, 437.

Arts, the useful, require education, 272. Improvements made in the,
280, 282. How improvements are to be made in the, 285.

Astrology believed in, to what extent, 234.

Atmospheric impurities, 100, 101. May be detected, 104.

Barnard, Hon. Henry, School Architecture by, 380. Testimony of, in
relation to school libraries, 400. In relation to the external arrange-
ments of school-houses, 402.

Bartlett, H., testimony of in relation to the productiveness of labor, 264.
Bathing, the importance of, 59. The luxury of, 59. The benefits of,
60, 62. The time for, 61, 62. A preservative of health, 63. A good
exercise, 80.

Beecher, Miss Catharine E., quoted, 457.

Benevolent females, means of usefulness of, 444.

Bible, its use in schools, 209. Vote on, in the New York Legislature,
219. What it has done for mankind, 222.

Black Hole in Calcutta referred to, 96, 97.

Blindness, hereditary, 36. How caused in schools, 182. Blind persons
inferior, 124. Injured by inaction, 127. How taught, 150.

Blood, circulation of the, 82.

Bones, how injured, 68. Lengthened by habit, 72.
Books furnished at the expense of the district, 443.

Boxing the ears injurious, 171.

Brain, the seat of the mind, 113. Its functions the highest in the ani-

mal economy, 113. Conditions of its healthy action, 114, 118, 121.
How affected by bad air, 118. Requires exercise, 121. Seclusion
injurious to, 122. Want of exercise of the, a cause of disease, 127.
Effects of excessive activity of the, 128, 129. In childhood, 130-
135. Rules for the exercise of the, 135, 137, 140, 143.

Breath known to take fire, 86.

Bull Fights an amusement in Spain, 228.

California, state of agriculture and the arts in, 270.

Capital punishment and compulsory attendance upon school, 446, 449.
Carriage of the body important, 71.

Celebrations, common school, recommended, 364.

Character, how affected by associations, 142, 143, 405.

Chest, how developed, 69, 79, 105, 106. Should not be compressed, 88.
Children, seats for, 69. How deformed, 69. Should not be confined
too long, 77. Rational treatment of, 77.

Chylification, the process and necessity of, 50.

Chymification, the second important step in digestion, 49.
Circulation of the blood, 81. Two circulations, 83.

Clark, John, testimony of, in relation to education and labor, 267.
Cleanliness a virtue, 60.

Clergymen, their relation to the primary schools, 414, 442. A text for,
445.

Clothing, office of, 64. Necessity of airing and changing, 65.

Cold, how to prevent taking, 108.

Combe, Dr., on bathing, 63.

Confinement injurious to children, 77.

Conflagration, general, how it may be produced, 320, 321.

Consumption, hereditary, 87. How death caused by, 84. How pre-
vented, 80, 106. Common among the deaf and dumb, 126.

Conventions, educational, recommended, 364.

Costiveness, effects of, 53. How prevented, 54.

Crime diminished by education, 286. Statistics of, 295. Expense of,

358.

Deaf and dumb, why inferior to other persons, 125.

Deafness, cause and cure of, 172.

Digestion, process of, 48.

Diseases, hereditary, 41, 114, 126. Caused by mental inactivity, 127.
District libraries, 399, 400.

District lyceum, how rendered useful, 400.

Drawing an exercise in schools, 191.

Drunkenness becomes constitutional, 41, 42.

Dumb-bells, their use recommended, 105, 403.

Ears, how injured, 171.

Eclipses, a source of alarm to the ignorant and superstitious, 233.
Education, in what it consists, 13. Not finished in schools, 18. Should
have reference to man's future existence, 19. Not limited to man's
physical powers, 24. Not limited to his intellectual powers, 25.
Not limited to his moral powers, 26. Physically considered, 28. In-
tellectual and moral, 111. Of the five senses, 146. Necessity of
moral and religious, 193. The importance of, 225. It dissipates the
evils of ignorance, 226, 242. It increases the productiveness of labor,
253. Necessary for females, 268, 279. It diminishes pauperism and
crime, 286. It improves the moral habits, 287, 288. It increases

human happiness, 311, 315.
Existing provisions for, 343.
universal, 362.

Degree of, in the United States, 337.
The means of rendering its blessings

Educational department, the state should maintain an, 370.
Emerson, George B., quoted, 408.

Epidemics arrested by ventilation, 101.

Evacuation, importance of, to the preservation of health, 53.
Evening schools for adults, 453.

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Exercise, effects of, 74. When not to be taken, 75. Other laws of, 77.
Should be taken regularly, 78.

Experiment on breathing air, 91. In visiting a school, 96. In plow-
ing with three horses, 254.

Eye, description of the, 175. Its sympathy with the other bodily or-
gans, 184.
Rational care of the, 180-192. See Sight.

Factories, labor in, requires education to render it productive, 261–269.
School teachers employed in, 268.

Failures in business accounted for in certain cases, 140, 141.

Farming requires knowledge, 269.

California, 270.

Illustrative anecdote, 254. In

Females, benevolent and Christian, their relation to the primary school,
442, 444, 445.

Fortune-telling practiced in Great Britain and in the United States, 234.
Fracture of the skull, cases of, referred to, 129.

France infidel-the United States Christian, 204.

Franklin's Methusalem, 103.

Free Academy, New York, 386.

Freezing of water, law of, illustrates the beneficence of God, 221-223.
French ladies, posture of, 71.

Friday and other unlucky days, 236-238.

Funds for the support of schools, 366. When useful, 369.

General conflagration may be produced by the decomposition of air or
water, 321.

Geography, how taught in many schools, 432.

Gestation, state of the mother during, affects the health and happiness
of the offspring, 116, 117.

Grain, influence of the moon on the growth of, 250.

Greeley, Horace, extract from Address of, on free schools, 267.

Habits, mental and physical, how formed, 140.

Happiness increased by education, 311.

Health, laws of, 44-81.

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Hearing, the sense of, 169. How improved, 171. How injured, 171
Cultivation of, 172–174.

Hereditary diseases, 41, 115.

Hot-bed system of education, 130-135.

House of Refuge for juvenile delinquents, 450-458.

Howard, Roger S., on the redeeming power of common schools, 456.
Howe, Dr. Samuel G., on the importance of physical education, 36.
Humphrey, Dr., on moral and religious training, 194.

Hypocrisy, why unsuccessful, 142.

Idiocy, extent of, 301. Causes of, 302, 303, 409.

Idiots, who are, in law, 151. Condition of, 304. May be educated,
300, 307.

Ignorance, its effects considered, 230. Of the correct treatment of
children, 133. Man in a state of, 311.

Indians never have consumption, 109. Anecdote of an, 203, 225.
Indigestion caused by mental anxiety, 137.
Inhaling tubes, their use considered, 109, 110.
Insanity, how caused, 126, 138, 308, 409.
Instruction, modes of, extensively practiced, 425.
Insurance of property, the best modes of, 266, 267.
Intellectual education, its nature, 111.

Intemperance, hereditary, 41, 42. A cause of idiocy, 302. Expense
of, in this country, 358, 360. See Breath.
Intermarriages, influence of, on posterity, 115.
Irritability of teachers accounted for, 120.

Juvenile delinquents, provisions for, 449, 450.

Knowledge essential to prosperity in agriculture, 269. Required in
the useful arts, 272. See Education.

Labor, education increases the productiveness of, 253. During rapid
growth often injurious, 68. Of females in factories and in the do-
mestic employments of the sex, 268, 279.

Ladies in France, consequences of their erect posture, 71.

Lardner, Dr., on popular fallacies, 246, 248.

Laura Bridgman, the deaf, dumb, and blind girl, 148.

Library and apparatus, 398. Township and district libraries, 399.
Life, extensive loss of, how caused, 298.

Lunacy, origin and signification of, 251, 252.

Lunar influences considered, 250.

Blood

Lungs strengthened by reading aloud and singing, 79, 80.
changed in the, 85. Exhalations from the, 86. Absorption in the,
87. Diseases of the, hereditary, 87. Exercise of the, a means of
preventing disease, 105. When they should not be exercised, 107.
Lyceums in districts, how rendered popular and useful, 400.

Mann, Hon. Horace, referred to and quoted, 257, 328.

Manufactories, to be productive, require educated workmen, 261–269.
Education of children employed in, 278.

Marriage of relatives a cause of consumption, 126. A cause of idiocy.
303, 304.

Mastication, importance of, to digestion, 48.
Masturbation, 409. See Secret Vice.

Meals, proper time for partaking of, 55.

Measures, a system of, for schools, 188, 404.

Mills, James K., testimony of, in relation to education and labor, 261.
Mind, laws of, 111, 112. See Brain.

Moral education, its nature, 111. Necessity of, 193. Want of, a cause
of insanity, 309. Should be pursued practically, 435.

Moon, its influence on the weather, 248.

Mortality, cause and extent of, among infants, 298-300.
Muscles, how they act, 72. Of the eye, 179.

See Exercise.

Music, vocal, a branch of education in Germany, 80.

National education, political necessity of, 325. Degree of, in this coun-
try. 337. Provisions for, 343. Practicability of, 353. The meaus

of, 362-460.

Natural philosophy, the mode of teaching, 434.
Navigation among the ignorant and educated, 250.

Nerves, sensibility of the, 161, 162.

See Brain.

New York, Free Academy, 386. Public Schools in, 386, 434.
Normal Schools, necessity for, 421-440.

Oliver Caswell, the deaf, dumb, and blind boy, 159.

Onanism, 409. See Secret Vice.

Page, D. P., on the redeeming power of common schools, 454.
Parents, the natural educators of their children, 411. Vicious, some-
times reformed by school children, 441.

Pauperism, diminished by education, 286.
358. Expense of maintaining, 358.

Peace convention at Paris referred to, 459.

Extent of, in New York,

Petulancy in teachers and others accounted for, 94, 120.

Physical education, importance of, 28. A preventive of disease, 34.
The only correct basis for intellectual and moral, 32, 111.

Physician, his office and that of the clergyman compared, 34. How he
may be most useful in his profession, 34, 35.

Physiology, made by law a study in common schools, 61.

upon, by school teachers, 61.

Play-rooms, important for small children, 403.

Politics, definition of, 335. Should be a school study, 335.

Politeness should be habitual, 142.

Lectures

Popular intelligence, degree of, in the United States, 337. Existing
provisions for, 343.

Poverty, extent of in Spain, 294. How diminished, 253, 286.

Precocity of scrofulous and rickety children, 130. How they should be
treated, 131, 132, 133.

Pregnancy, the state of the mother during, influences the character of
the child, 116, 117.

Punishments, certain kinds injurious, 77, 171. See Capital Punishment.
Purblind students, suggestions for, 185.

Quincy, Hon. Josiah, Jr., on compulsory attendance upon school, 447.

Reading aloud a healthful exercise, 79. How reading is frequently
taught, 429. A better way, 430.

Reading-room in connection with the school-house, 399.

Recesses in schools should be frequent, 77.

Reform school. See State Reform School.

Regularity, in bodily exercise, 78. In mental exercise, 139.

Relatives, consequences of the marriage of, 126, 303.

Religion defined, 207. Of some kind unavoidable, 207.

Religious education, the necessity for, 193. Should be reduced to

practice, 435.

Respiration, philosophy of, 81.

Rickety children injured by study, 130.

Riots, expense of, in Philadelphia, 357.

Roman notation table, how taught, 428. A better way, 429.

Rush, Dr., on the use of tobacco, 67.

School funds, their utility considered, 366-369.

School-houses, their common size, 92. Good ones should be provided,
The condition of, 373. The location of, 379. Size and con-

372.