Fort: George C. Shattuck
with the respurts of his obliged friend

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PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE BOARD OF CENSORS.

BOSTON:

CARTER, HENDEE AND CO.
1834.

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Definition of intelligence, 3- of happiness, 4-necessity of educating

the young, 4-what the proper education of an American youth should

comprise, 6 the importance of attention to the physical comfort of the

young, 6 schools uniting intellectual pursuits and mechanical labor, 8-

education defective in not teaching how to live and for what to live, 9

cause of the error and a remedy suggested, 16 -importance of a knowledge

of our political institutions and of the duties and rights of a citizen, 22—

slavery, 27 — other dangers and abuses to which a country enjoying perfect

political and religious freedom is liable, 32 — means of counteracting these

liabilities to abuse, 33 - objects of encouragement, 33.

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LECTURE I.

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF A KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRINCI-

PLES OF PHYSIOLOGY TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS. By

EDWARD REYNOLDS, M. D.

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Attention of the present age to education, 41 causes of alarm to the

physiologist in the exclusive attention to the mind, 42- ill health not a

necessary consequence of study, 43 — disease induced by overaction of the

mind in early life, 44- union and sympathy between the body and the

mind, 46 - definition of physiology, 48 -- I. The brain the organ of thought,

49 II. It is subject to the same laws, as regulate the functions of the other

organs, 49-III. Predominance of the brain and nervous system, in infancy,

childhood and youth, 51-IV. Of the blood vessels supplying these organs,

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