460 THE MEANS OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATION. That such a time will come, every heart that glows with Christian benevolence must earnestly desire and fervently pray. But we can not hope to attain the end without the use of the necessary means. So glorious a result as this, that has become an object of universal desire throughout Christendom, must follow when the conditions upon which it depends are complied with. What these are there can be little room for doubt. Let, then, every friend of Universal Peace seek it in the use of the appropriate means-Universal Education. The same remark will apply to every form of Christian benevolence and universal philanthropy; for, as has been well remarked, in universal education, every "follower of God and friend of human kind" will find the only sure means of carrying forward that particular reform to which he is devoted. In whatever department of philanthropy he may be engaged, he will find that department to be only a segment of the great circle of beneficence of which Universal Education is the center and circumference; and that he can most successfully promote the permanent advancement of his most cherished interest in securing the establishment of, and attendance upon, IMPROVED SCHOOLS FREE to All. то INDEX. Abbott, Rev. J., on the redeeming power of common schools, page 456. Academy, New York Free, 386. Accidents, cause and prevention of, 298. Adams, John Q., accustomed to the daily reading of the Scriptures, 222. Alphabet, how taught, 426. A better method, 426–427. Im- Anecdote of the Indian, 203, 225. Of Laura Bridgman, 157-159. Of Apoplexy, how caused, 90, 92. Death by, 90, 93. Apparatus and Library, 398. May be useful to adults, 399, 400. Arithmetic, often poorly taught, 433. Its morals, 437. Arts, the useful, require education, 272. Improvements made in the, 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 Bartlett, H., testimony of in relation to the productiveness of labor, 264. Beecher, Miss Catharine E., quoted, 457. 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 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 ani- mal economy, 113. Conditions of its healthy action, 114, 118, 121. 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. 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. 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. 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. vented, 80, 106. Common among the deaf and dumb, 126. Conventions, educational, recommended, 364. Costiveness, effects of, 53. How prevented, 54. How pre- 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. human happiness, 311, 315. Degree of, in the United States, 337. 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. Experiment on breathing air, 91. In visiting a school, 96. In plow- Eye, description of the, 175. Its sympathy with the other bodily or- gans, 184. Factories, labor in, requires education to render it productive, 261–269. Failures in business accounted for in certain cases, 140, 141. Farming requires knowledge, 269. California, 270. Illustrative anecdote, 254. In Females, benevolent and Christian, their relation to the primary school, Fortune-telling practiced in Great Britain and in the United States, 234. 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. 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 Geography, how taught in many schools, 432. Gestation, state of the mother during, affects the health and happiness 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, Jaws of, 44-81. Hearing, the sense of, 169. How improved, 171. How injured, 171 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. 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, Ignorance, its effects considered, 230. Of the correct treatment of Indians never have consumption, 109. Anecdote of an, 203, 225. Inhaling tubes, their use considered, 109, 110. Insanity, how caused, 126, 138, 308, 409. Intemperance, hereditary, 41, 42. A cause of idiocy, 302. Expense Juvenile delinquents, provisions for, 449. 450. Knowledge essential to prosperity in agriculture, 269. Required in Labor, education increases the productiveness of, 253. During rapid 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. Lunacy, origin and signification of, 251, 252. Blood Lungs strengthened by reading aloud and singing, 79, 80. Mann, Hon. Horace, referred to and quoted, 257, 328. Manufactories, to be productive, require educated workmen, 261–269. Marriage of relatives a cause of consumption, 126. A cause of idiocy. 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. Moral education, its nature, 111. Necessity of, 193. Want of, a cause Moon, its influence on the weather, 248. Mortality, cause and extent of, among infants, 298–300. See Exercise. Music, vocal, a branch of education in Germany, 80. National education, political necessity of, 325. 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