Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: beverage, p. 992. ? Propensity often early formed to the use of strong liquors, with its deleterious effects, p. 393 ?398. ? Water used as a beverage should be free from the oxyd of lead and too much earthy matter, p. 398? 400. ? Tea, p. 400?402. ? Recommendation from Locke, p. 402. CHAP. VII. MUSCULAR EXERCISE. Children should be encouraged in active clever sports, p. 404?406. ? Exercise should be voluntary and spirited, p. 406?409. ? Dancing, p. 407. ? Courage, activity, and presence of mind to be cultivated, p. 409? 413. ? Exercise should form a part of every system of Education, p. 413?415. ? Excessive mental exertion to be carefully avoided, p. 416. ? And also indolence of body or of mind, p. 417?418. ? With, on the other hand, restless impatience, p. 419. ? Girls to be encouraged in active exercise, p. 419?421. CHAP. VIII. EXERCISE OF THE SENSES. On the improvement of the Senses and the perceptive power, p. 422?425. ? Abstract from Saltzman's " Gymnastics for Youth," on the exercise of the Senses, p. 426?430. CHAP. IX. SENSIBILITY. Object with respect to the organs of feeling, p. 431. ? Effect of undue excitement, p. 432. ? Regulation of the sensibility, p. 432?434. ? Picture of morbid sensibility, from Beddoes, p. 436. ? Evils of an excessive excitement of nervous sensibility, p. 436. chapter{Section 4PRINCIPLES EDUCATION. Introduction. Education, in the limited acceptation of the term, may be considered as that regulation of the external impressions by which the developement and cultivation of the various faculties and affections of the mind are affected. In this definition very general expressions are used, because the term education is applicable to that direction of the external impressions by which the progress of the mind is chec...
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