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HIS Science of Mind is neglected because its benefits are not immediately apparent, its attainments not capable of display.

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DUCATION is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

CONCEIVE when I have any distinct object of

thought. It is part of all our mental operations, involved in perception, memory, imagination, abstraction, reasoning, etc.

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SYCHOLOGY has relations to Theology. Ideas of Divine Being must be in our own minds, as well as arguments, to prove this existence. Questions of human ability and of free will are discussed and decided.

HRENOLOGICAL division of Faculties of the

Mind far more numerous than any other, it looks to the classes of actions or functions mind has to perform, and finds faculties to perform them, as the naturalist, who could not find the ear of a fish by looking externally, looked from the lobe in the brain where the auditory nerve should terminate outwardly, and found it.

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this:

VALUES.

HE true doctrine in relation to the value which we should attach to property seems to be

up to the point of competence and to that degree of possession which places us above temptation, which confers self-respect and independence of feeling, and the power of performing duty, few things are more valuable than property; beyond that point, few things are of less value.

ADD TO KNOWLEDGE, VIRTUE.

HE Apostle exhorted the early Christians to add to their virtue, knowledge. Do we not

need the converse of this exhortation, that we add to our knowledge, virtue?

ADAPTATION OF MOTIVES.

HERE is a class of motives appropriate to

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every age, to every degree of mental advancement; the great secret is to know what motives belong to the age and the progress.

OBJECT'S

BJECTS of conception are material or spiritual, actual or ideal, sensible or supersensible, past or future.

WHA

THAT is a Mental Faculty? A power of mind capable of performing a specific, distinct class

of operations. As many faculties as distinct powers of action, distinct functions, distinct modes and spheres of activity.

PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING.

CHOOL exercises should be founded on mental

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philosophy, as gymnastic exercises are upon physiology. In one all the muscles of the body must be known, and the exercises adapted to strengthen them; in the other, all the faculties should be known, and the exercises adapted to improve them.

HASTE IN TEACHING.

N trying to teach children a great deal in a short

time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a threemile heat.

NATURE'S PATH.

N every subject of morals, intellect, health, we have a true path marked out for us, on which

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have a true path

not only safety, but enjoyment, awaits us; but on

each side of this path fly the arrows of the Lord in

continual volley. Those arrows are shot, not at A, B, or C, but at whomsoever is found diverging from the strait way which omnipotent wisdom has laid

open.

REASON IN TEACHING.

T was the sin of Pharaoh to make the children

that is, to make bricks without straw.

THE CHILD A SMALL MAN.

OST, if not all, our principles of action are common both to a man and a child.

Indeed

it has been very pertinently asked, What is a child but a little man? and it might have been further asked, What is a man but a great child?—and not always so very great, either.

MENTAL EXERCISE STRENGTHENS AS WELL AS

PHYSICAL.

HE moral powers are strengthened by exer

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cise, until, as temptation increases, they grow stronger and stronger, like that celebrated bridge which was so constructed that it became stronger and firmer the heavier the pressure of the water upon it.

GIBBON AND SHAKSPEARE.

HE difference between Gibbon and Shak

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speare: one was always struggling for some thought greater than his expression, the other for some expression greater than his thought.

MAHOMET.

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AHOMET said, the learned man's ink and the martyr's blood are equally valuable in the sight of God.

CANT.

THERE

HERE is a great deal of cant on the subject of education," said Mr.

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be a good deal of can't," was the reply, "but there is much more won't."

BENEVOLENCE.

HERE are some men and women whose sym

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pathies for others' pains are as quick as the consciousness of their own; who feel a personal relief from suffering when others are relieved; and to whose ear the song of the captive ransomed from guilt is sweeter than a thousand-voiced chorus, pealing their own praises. These are the god-like.