Edve Tg8, 39, 275 NOV 19 1912 trol LIBRARY # Robes Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Butts's Press, School St. PREFACE. IN the Prussian Schools a large proportion of the time of the pupils is occupied in what is called a course of " Logical Exercises." It is said that two hours in each day are devoted to this purpose. The object is by oral instruction to call into action their observing, comparing, and reflecting faculties. At the close of these exercises each day a portion of Scripture is selected and read by the teacher, appropriate to the subject of the lesson, so that while the understanding is enlightened, the moral and religious faculties are simultaneously developed. It is believed by many that our systems of education at the present day depend too much upon the memory, and too little upon the exercise of the thinking and religious faculties. Without knowing, therefore, the character of |