INDEX. (continued 2)

Weaving Machinery, improved, opposition to introduction of, in England, 178.

Whitney, Eli B., inventor of the cotton-gin, 84.

William the Conqueror, his appreciation of the importance of land proprietorship, 317.

Williams, Roger, the champion of absolute freedom of thought and speech, 309.

Wilson, Dr. George, his panegyric on the hand, 145.

Wisdom, the power of discriminating between what is true and what is false, 152; the hand used as the synonym of, because it is only in the concrete that the false is sure of detection, 152.

Woman, tremendous influence of, upon the destinies of the human race, 125; neglect of past ages to educate, a crime, 125; education of, more important than that of man, 128; condition of, in a state of savagery, 249; reform in education must begin with, 365; the education of, more imperative than that of man, 365; neglect of the education of, among the ancients, 366; degradation of, in the Middle Ages, 366; contempt of, by Bacon, Swift, Addison, and Johnson, 366; Shakespeare’s tribute to, 366; Ruskin’s worship of, 366; the purity of the home and the efficiency of the school depends upon, 367; in the van where the imagination leads, 367; less selfish than man, 367; intuitions of, truer, ideals higher, sense of justice finer, and of duty stronger than those of man, 367; the teacher of man from the cradle to the grave, 367.

Woodward, Dr. C. M., Director of the St. Louis Manual Training School, 121; statement of, as to intellectual effect of manual training, 121; his account of the origin of the St. Louis school, 339.

Wood-turning laboratory, radical change of, from carpentry—from angles to spherical, cylindrical, and eccentric forms, 30; the value in the arts of the lathe, 30; its mythical origin, 33; its application and uses among the ancients, 34; fashionable in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England and France, 34; purpose of, is not to make turners, but to educate boys, 39; the machinery of, in motion, 39; pen-picture of the students in, 39; the lesson in detail in, 40; the students at their lathes in, 43; the instructor passes upon the work of the class in, 44.

Wootz, or Indian steel, produced near Golconda, and used in the fabrication of Damascus blades, 72; millions of dollars expended in efforts to produce the equal of, 72.

Words, weakness of, 141; cannot attain to definiteness save as living outgrowths of realities, 150; easy to juggle with, and make the worse appear the better reason, 224; educational systems still train in, rather than in things, 325, 326.

Workingman’s School and Free Kindergarten of New York City, the most comprehensive educational institution in the world, 342; scope of, 343; purpose of, identical with that of the manual training school, 343; methods of instruction in the, 343, 344.

Y.

Yarranton, Andrew, according to Patrick Edward Dove, was the founder of English political economy, 175.

Z.

Zenophon, after conducting the retreat of the Ten Thousand, led a detachment of Greeks on a pillaging expedition, 255.

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