ENTERED according to act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six, by RUSSELL, SHATTUCK & COMPANY, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Reasons why External Nature should not be the first department of study, ...... Practicableness of children's studying their Inward Nature,.. Facility of the young mind in apprehending the Infinite, The first Cause,.. Mr. Alcott's teaching not intended to be dogmatic,. Avenue to Inward Nature through language, Self-Analysis; its dangers and advantages, Mr. Alcott's success, Principle of questionable methods,. Attention the first principle of intellectual life....... True object of the Intellect can be made its first object, Illusions on the subject of Natural Sciences,.. Preparation for the study of Natural Science,. .5 .5 ..5 ..6 .6 .7-8 ...9-10 .11-12 .13 .13, 14, 15, 16 .17, 18, 19 .19-20 .20 .20-21. .21. .21 22-23 .24-25 .27-28 .28, 29, 30 .30, 31, 32, 33 ..34, 35, 36, 37 Use of Biography; of journals; of the study of native tongue,.....26—27 False impressions on this subject of Mr. Alcott's views and practice,...25 CHAP. II. JOURNAL. Plan of it,. 26 The illustration of words 27. 30. 35. 41. 49. 51. 54. 59. 67. 74. 78. 83. 90. CHAP. IV. CONCLUSION. ......... .163 .169 Reasons why the chapter on General Principles is left out,. NEW APPENDIX. Order of exercises in school, in the winter of 1835–6,.. Journal of the same winter from the diary of a little girl,.. Extracts from the journal of a boy ten years old, . .176 ..177-190 .191-194 .194-198 |