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Abbott, Rev. J., on the redeeming power of common schools, page 456. Abdominal Supporters, their use considered, 109. Academy, New York Free, 386. Accidents, cause and prevention of, 298. Adams, John Q., accustomed to the daily reading of the Scriptures, 222. Adams, Solomon, on the redeeming power of common schools, 455. Agriculture requires education for its successful prosecution, 269. Air, want of, causes death, 85. Necessary to purify the blood, 89. What composed of, 89. Quantity respired, 91, 93. How changed in respiration, 86, 89. Once respired will not sustain life, 91. Importance of to health, 98. Abundance of for man's use, 99. How freed from impurities, 100. Estimated loss of money and life from breathing impure, 299, 438. An excellent medicine, 108. Alcott, Dr., on breathing bad air, 103. Alphabet, how taught, 426. A better method, 426-427. Anecdote of the Indian, 203, 225. Of Laura Bridgman, 157-159. Of Dr. Franklin, 103. Of a practical teacher, 256. Of a German schoolmaster, 416. Of a farmer plowing with three horses, 254. Apoplexy, how caused, 90, 92. Death by, 90, 93. Apparatus and Library, 398. May be useful to adults, 399, 400. Appurtenances to school-houses, 401. Arithmetic, often poorly taught, 433. Its morals, 437. Arts, the useful, require education, 272. Improvements made in the, 280, 282. How improvements are to be made in the, 285. Astrology believed in, to what extent, 234. Atmospheric impurities, 100, 101. May be detected, 104. Barnard, Hon. Henry, School Architecture by, 380. Testimony of, in relation to school libraries, 400. In relation to the external arrangements of school-houses, 402. Bartlett, H., testimony of in relation to the productiveness of labor, 264. Bathing, the importance of, 59. The luxury of, 59. The benefits of, 60, 62. The time for, 61, 62. A preservative of health, 63. A good exercise, 80. Beecher, Miss Catharine E., quoted, 457. Benevolent females, means of usefulness of, 444. Bible, its use in schools, 209. Vote on, in the New York Legislature, 219. What it has done for mankind, 222. Black Hole in Calcutta referred to, 96, 97. Blindness, hereditary, 36. How caused in schools, 182. Blind persons inferior, 124. Injured by inaction, 127. How taught, 150. Blood, circulation of the, 82. Bones, how injured, 68. Lengthened by habit, 72. Books furnished at the expense of the district, 443. Boxing the ears injurious, 171. Brain, the seat of the mind, 113. Its functions the highest in the animal economy, 113. Conditions of its healthy action, 114, 118, 121. How affected by bad air, 118. Requires exercise, 121. Seclusion injurious to, 122. Want of exercise of the, a cause of disease, 127. Effects of excessive activity of the, 128, 129. In childhood, 130-135. Rules for the exercise of the, 135, 137, 140, 143. Breath known to take fire, 86. Bull Fights an amusement in Spain, 228. California, state of agriculture and the arts in, 270. Capital punishment and compulsory attendance upon school, 446, 449. Carriage of the body important, 71. Celebrations, common school, recommended, 364. Character, how affected by associations, 142, 143, 405. Chest, how developed, 69, 79, 105, 106. Should not be compressed, 88. Children, seats for, 69. How deformed, 69. Should not be confined too long, 77. Rational treatment of, 77. Chylification, the process and necessity of, 50. Chymification, the second important step in digestion, 49. Circulation of the blood, 81. Two circulations, 83. Clark, John, testimony of, in relation to education and labor, 267. Cleanliness a virtue, 60. Clergymen, their relation to the primary schools, 414, 442. A text for, 445. Clothing, office of, 64. Necessity of airing and changing, 65. Cold, how to prevent taking, 108. Combe, Dr., on bathing, 63. Confinement injurious to children, 77. Conflagration, general, how it may be produced, 320, 321. Consumption, hereditary, 87. How death caused by, 84. How prevented, 80, 106. Common among the deaf and dumb, 126. Conventions, educational, recommended, 364. Costiveness, effects of, 53. How prevented, 54. Crime diminished by education, 286. Statistics of, 295. Expense of, 358. Deaf and dumb, why inferior to other persons, 125. Deafness, cause and cure of, 172. Digestion, process of, 48. Diseases, hereditary, 41, 114, 126. Caused by mental inactivity, 127. District libraries, 399, 400. District lyceum, how rendered useful, 400. Drawing an exercise in schools, 191. Drunkenness becomes constitutional, 41, 42. Dumb-bells, their use recommended, 105, 403. Ears, how injured, 171. Eclipses, a source of alarm to the ignorant and superstitious, 233. Education, in what it consists, 13. Not finished in schools, 18. Should have reference to man's future existence, 19. Not limited to man's physical powers, 24. Not limited to his intellectual powers, 25. Not limited to his moral powers, 26. Physically considered, 28. Intellectual and moral, 111. Of the five senses, 146. Necessity of moral and religious, 193. The importance of, 225. It dissipates the evils of ignorance, 226, 242. It increases the productiveness of labor, 253. Necessary for females, 268, 279. It diminishes pauperism and crime, 286. It improves the moral habits, 287, 288. It increases human happiness, 311, 315. Degree of, in the United States, 337. Existing provisions for, 343. The means of rendering its blessings universal, 362. Educational department, the state should maintain an, 370. Emerson, George B., quoted, 408. Epidemics arrested by ventilation, 101. Evacuation, importance of, to the preservation of health, 53. Evening schools for adults, 453. Exercise, effects of, 74. When not to be taken, 75. Other laws of, 77. Should be taken regularly, 78. Experiment on breathing air, 91. In visiting a school, 96. In plowing with three horses, 254. Eye, description of the, 175. Its sympathy with the other bodily organs, 184. Rational care of the, 180-192. See Sight. Factories, labor in, requires education to render it productive, 261-269. School teachers employed in, 268. Failures in business accounted for in certain cases, 140, 141. Farming requires knowledge, 269. Illustrative anecdote, 254. In California, 270. Females, benevolent and Christian, their relation to the primary school, 442, 444, 445. Fortune-telling practiced in Great Britain and in the United States, 234. Fracture of the skull, cases of, referred to, 129. France infidel—the United States Christian, 204. Franklin's Methusalem, 103. Free Academy, New York, 386. Freezing of water, law of, illustrates the beneficence of God, 221-223. French ladies, posture of, 71. Friday and other unlucky days, 236-238. Funds for the support of schools, 366. When useful, 369. General conflagration may be produced by the decomposition of air or water, 321. Geography, how taught in many schools, 432. Gestation, state of the mother during, affects the health and happiness of the offspring, 116, 117. Grain, influence of the moon on the growth of, 250. Greeley, Horace, extract from Address of, on free schools, 267. Habits, mental and physical, how formed, 140. Happiness increased by education, 311. Health, laws of, 44-81. Hearing, the sense of, 169. How improved, 171. How injured, 171. Cultivation of, 172-174. Hereditary diseases, 41, 115. Hot-bed system of education, 130-135. House of Refuge for juvenile delinquents, 450-458. Howard, Roger S., on the redeeming power of common schools, 456. Howe, Dr. Samuel G., on the importance of physical education, 36. Humphrey, Dr., on moral and religious training, 194. Hypocrisy, why unsuccessful, 142. Idiocy, extent of, 301. Causes of, 302, 303, 409. Idiots, who are, in law, 151. Condition of, 304. May be educated, 300, 307. Ignorance, its effects considered, 230. Of the correct treatment of children, 133. Man in a state of, 311. Indians never have consumption, 109. Anecdote of an, 203, 225. Indigestion caused by mental anxiety, 137. Inhaling tubes, their use considered, 109, 110. Insanity, how caused, 126, 138, 308, 409. Instruction, modes of, extensively practiced, 425. Insurance of property, the best modes of, 266, 267. Intellectual education, its nature, 111. Intemperance, hereditary, 41, 42. A cause of idiocy, 302. Expense of, in this country, 358, 360. See Breath. Intermarriages, influence of, on posterity, 115. Irritability of teachers accounted for, 120. Juvenile delinquents, provisions for, 449, 450. Knowledge essential to prosperity in agriculture, 269. Required in the useful arts, 272. See Education. Labor, education increases the productiveness of, 253. During rapid growth often injurious, 68. Of females in factories and in the domestic employments of the sex, 268, 279. Ladies in France, consequences of their erect posture, 71. Lardner, Dr., on popular fallacies, 246, 248. Laura Bridgman, the deaf, dumb, and blind girl, 148. Library and apparatus, 398. Township and district libraries, 399. Life, extensive loss of, how caused, 298. Lunacy, origin and signification of, 251, 252. Lunar influences considered, 250. Lungs strengthened by reading aloud and singing, 79, 80. Blood changed in the, 85. Exhalations from the, 86. Absorption in the, 87. Diseases of the, hereditary, 87. Exercise of the, a means of preventing disease, 105. When they should not be exercised, 107. Lyceums in districts, how rendered popular and useful, 400. Mann, Hon. Horace, referred to and quoted, 257, 328. Manufactories, to be productive, require educated workmen, 261-269. Education of children employed in, 278. Marriage of relatives a cause of consumption, 126. A cause of idiocy, 303, 304. Mastication, importance of, to digestion, 48. Masturbation, 409. See Secret Vice. Meals, proper time for partaking of, 55. Measures, a system of, for schools, 188, 404. Mills, James K., testimony of, in relation to education and labor, 261. Mind, laws of, 111, 112. See Brain. Moral education, its nature, 111. Necessity of, 193. Want of, a cause of insanity, 309. Should be pursued practically, 435. Moon, its influence on the weather, 248. Mortality, cause and extent of, among infants, 298-300. Muscles, how they act, 72. Of the eye, 179. See Exercise. Music, vocal, a branch of education in Germany, 80. National education, political necessity of, 325. Degree of, in this country, 337. Provisions for, 343. Practicability of, 353. The means of, 362-460. Natural philosophy, the mode of teaching, 434. Navigation among the ignorant and educated, 250. Nerves, sensibility of the, 161, 162. See Brain. New York, Free Academy, 386. Public Schools in, 386, 434. Normal Schools, necessity for, 421-440. Oliver Caswell, the deaf, dumb, and blind boy, 159. Onanism, 409. See Secret Vice. Page, D. P., on the redeeming power of common schools, 454. Parents, the natural educators of their children, 411. Vicious, sometimes reformed by school children, 441. Pauperism, diminished by education, 286. Extent of, in New York, 358. Expense of maintaining, 358. Peace convention at Paris referred to, 459. Petulancy in teachers and others accounted for, 94, 120. Physical education, importance of, 28. A preventive of disease, 34. The only correct basis for intellectual and moral, 32, 111. Physician, his office and that of the clergyman compared, 34. How he may be most useful in his profession, 34, 35. Physiology, made by law a study in common schools, 61. Lectures upon, by school teachers, 61. Play-rooms, important for small children, 403. Politics, definition of, 335. Should be a school study, 335. Politeness should be habitual, 142. Popular intelligence, degree of, in the United States, 337. Existing provisions for, 343. Poverty, extent of in Spain, 294. How diminished, 253, 286. Precocity of scrofulous and rickety children, 130. How they should be treated, 131, 132, 133. Pregnancy, the state of the mother during, influences the character of the child, 116, 117. Punishments, certain kinds injurious, 77, 171. See Capital Punishment. Purblind students, suggestions for, 185. Quincy, Hon. Josiah, Jr., on compulsory attendance upon school, 447. Reading aloud a healthful exercise, 79. How reading is frequently taught, 429. A better way, 430. Reading-room in connection with the school-house, 399. Recesses in schools should be frequent, 77. Reform school. See State Reform School. Regularity, in bodily exercise, 78. In mental exercise, 139. Relatives, consequences of the marriage of, 126, 303. Religion defined, 207. Of some kind unavoidable, 207. Religious education, the necessity for, 193. Should be reduced to practice, 435. Respiration, philosophy of, 81. Rickety children injured by study, 130. Riots, expense of, in Philadelphia, 357. Roman notation table, how taught, 428. A better way, 429. Rush, Dr., on the use of tobacco, 67. School funds, their utility considered, 366-369. School-houses, their common size, 92. Good ones should be provided, 372. The condition of, 373. The location of, 379. Size and construction of, 382. For country districts, 383. For cities and villages, 385. Plans for, 387-389. Ventilation of, 390. Means of warming, 392. Appurtenances to, 401. Influence of, 405. Schools, the support of, 366. The redeeming power of, 454. Should continue through the year, 440. Every child should attend, 442. Compulsory attendance upon, 447. Scrofulous children injured by study, 130. Proper treatment of, 131, 132. Seclusion from society injurious to both body and mind, 122. Secret vice, how increased, 405. How remedied, 407. Causes idiocy, insanity, and other evils, 409. See-saws, how rendered interesting and useful, 403. Senses, education of the, 146. Loss of the, impairs the health, 124, 125. Loss of the, causes insanity, 126. General law concerning the, 162. Their cultivation increases human happiness, 191. Shooting stars a source of terror to the ignorant, 234. Shoulder braces, their use considered, 109, 110. Sickness in school accounted for, 94, 95, 96, 119. Sight, the sense of, 175. Influence of tobacco and spectacles on the, 186. How injured, and how preserved and improved, 180-186. How persons become near or long sighted, 183, 184. How the sight may be disciplined, 188. Skin, functions of the, 55. Cleanliness of, important, 59. Skull, cases of fracture of the, 129. Smell, the sense of, 165. Its uses, 167. How injured, 168. Snuff, its influence upon the sense of smell, 169. Spectacles, the use of, often injurious, 186. Sports, what kinds most advantageous, 79. State Reform School in Massachusetts, 449. Statistics of education in the United States, 337-351. Stooping, how induced, 70. Habitual, to be avoided, 70. Study, best time for, 138. See Brain. Sulphureted hydrogen gas poisonous, 102. Summary of important principles, 145, 286, 323, 361. Of improvements in the arts, 282. Taste, the sense of, its uses and abuses, 163-165. Teachers, why their health fails, 94-96. Employed in factories, 268. Their relation to the school, 410-440. Books for, 410. Tobacco used by, 417. Indulge in other evil practices, 417-420. Who make the best, 438. Qualifications of, 340, 350, 417, 420, 422. Institutes for, 420. Teaching, should be ranked among the learned professions, 412, 439. Compared with the practice of law, 413. With the business of legislation, 413. With the practice of medicine, 414. With the clerical profession, 414. Teeth, their relation to health, 65. How to preserve them, 65. Acids injurious to them, 66. Tobacco not a preservative of, 66. Timber, time for felling, 248. Tobacco, its use tends to drunkenness, 67. It impairs the sight, 186. Used by teachers, 417. Used by ministers, 417, 418. A lady's inquiry concerning the use of, 419. The use of, expensive, 420. Touch, sense of, 160. How improved, 161. Township libraries instead of district libraries, 399. Truancy, legal provisions concerning, 447-450. Union or graded schools, 384. They should possess a normal characteristic, 433. United States, the, a Christian nation, 204. See France. Universal education. See Education, National Education, and Free Schools. Unlucky days in Scotland, 236. In the United States, 237. Vaccination, how effected, 59. Ventilation, necessity of, 91-99. Of clothing, 57, 64. Means of, 390, 397. Vocal gymnastics, influence of, 107. Vocal music useful as an exercise, 80. Dr. Rush's testimony quoted, 80. Should be introduced into all our schools, 107. Walking, not the best exercise, 78. How rendered most beneficial, 78. Washington, quotation from Farewell Address of, 221. Waste, the cause of, 44. The repair of, 47. Water, the freezing of, illustrates the beneficence of God, 321-323. Watson, Rev. James V., on the providence of God, 62. Weather, does the moon influence the, 248. Weights and measures for school apparatus, 404. See Measures. Witchcraft in England and New England, 240. Young, the Hon. 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