MORAL DISCIPLINE

In Families and
and Schools,

EXAMINED AND DISCUSSED.

IN TWO PARTS.

PART I-Objections to the use of the Rod.

PART II.-Substitutes for, and Preventives of, the use of the Rod.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING LETTERS FROM DISTINGUISHED INDIVIDUALS, EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS,
RESOLUTIONS, PROCEEDINGS OF EDUCATIONAL CONVENTIONS, &C., IN DIFFERENT
PARTS OF OUR COUNTRY, ON THE SUBJECT OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.

BY LYMAN COBB, A. M.,

AUTHOR OF A SERIES OF SCHOOL BOOKS, MINIATURE LEXICON, &c., &c.

"A GENTLE hand leads the ELEPHANT himself by a hair."-Persian writer.

"MODERATION and MILDNESS often effect what can NOT be done by FORCE."-Dr. Noah

Webster.

"How often has early genius been withered and blighted by the SEVERITY of the master, which
would have GROWN and BLOSSOMED sweetly in the atmosphere of GENTLENESS and LOVE."
-Prof. Olmsted.

NEW YORK:

MARK H. NEWMAN & CO., 199 BROADWAY.

Stereotyped by C. Davison & Co., 33 Gold-Street, New York.

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