A. BRONSON ALCOTT
Reading edition
"For curious method expect none, essays for the most part not being placed as at a feast, but placing themselves as at an ordinary."
Thomas Fuller.
BOSTON ROBERTS BROTHERS 1868.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by A. Bronson Alcott, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Electrotyped and Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, No. 34 School St., Boston.
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.—PRACTICAL.
I. THE GARDEN.page.
1 Antiquity5
2 Ornaments11
3 Pleasures14
4 Orchard20
5 Sweet Herbs25
6 Table Plants28
7 Rations36
8 Economies41
9 Rural Culture48
II. RECREATION.
1 The Fountains59
2 The Cheap Physician65
III. FELLOWSHIP.
1 Hospitality69
2 Conversation75
IV. FRIENDSHIP.
1 Persons81
2 Woman88
3 Family92
4 Children95
V. CULTURE.
1 Modern Teaching103
2 Socratic Dialectic108
3 Pythagorean Discipline113
4 Mother Tongue118
VI. BOOKS.127
VII. COUNSELS.
1 Religious139
2 Personal145
3 Political148
4 Soul's Errand151
BOOK II.—SPECULATIVE.
I. INSTRUMENTALITIES.
1 Tendencies159
2 Method162
3 Man166
II. MIND.
1 Ideas173
2 The Gifts179
3 Person181
4 Choice184
III. GENESIS.
1 Vestiges189
2 Serpent Symbol191
3 Embryons193
4 Temperament195
IV. METAMORPHOSES.
1 Sleep201
2 Reminiscence203
3 Immortality205