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Page 72
... physical nature , can reveal man's origin , or destiny , or glory . I would rather reverently accept the truth that man is a child of God , created in His image and for His glory , and crowned as an heir of immortality . This is better ...
... physical nature , can reveal man's origin , or destiny , or glory . I would rather reverently accept the truth that man is a child of God , created in His image and for His glory , and crowned as an heir of immortality . This is better ...
Page 73
... physical conditions and needs . The body is not only the earthly home of the soul , but it is also its agent , its helper , and nourisher . Through the phys- ical senses the mind holds communion with external nature , and what knowledge ...
... physical conditions and needs . The body is not only the earthly home of the soul , but it is also its agent , its helper , and nourisher . Through the phys- ical senses the mind holds communion with external nature , and what knowledge ...
Page 74
... physical nature is but the condition of a higher good . The body exists for the soul that inhabits and glorifies it . Physical comforts , health , and per- fection are but means to a sublimer end — that end the nurture and perfection of ...
... physical nature is but the condition of a higher good . The body exists for the soul that inhabits and glorifies it . Physical comforts , health , and per- fection are but means to a sublimer end — that end the nurture and perfection of ...
Page 75
... physical enjoyment . The nearer a man comes to the brute the fewer and coarser are his physical wants , and , on the contrary , the higher his elevation above the mere animal , the more exalted his desires , and the richer and nobler ...
... physical enjoyment . The nearer a man comes to the brute the fewer and coarser are his physical wants , and , on the contrary , the higher his elevation above the mere animal , the more exalted his desires , and the richer and nobler ...
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... physical wants has , indeed , its attendant enjoyments , but a view of the harmo- nies of creation and of the sublimer truths of God's redeeming love , thrills the soul with raptures un- known to sense . Here , then , we find a law of ...
... physical wants has , indeed , its attendant enjoyments , but a view of the harmo- nies of creation and of the sublimer truths of God's redeeming love , thrills the soul with raptures un- known to sense . Here , then , we find a law of ...
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adopted American attention AUGUST 15 blackboard Boston boys branches character Charlestown child civilization class of schools Committee common schools course culture DAVID CROSBY Directors duties elementary Elizabeth Peabody English exer exercise experience fact fair division geometric German girls give given grammar schools Henry Barnard high schools higher human hundred important industrial Institute of Instruction intelligence interest ject knowledge labor lecture lessons Lewiston literature Lowell Mason lower classes man's Mass Massachusetts memory ment mental methods metic mind musical instruction nature Normal School o'clock objects parents perfection person physical plane geometry popular practical present President primary schools professional teacher Prussia public schools pupils reading Real School school-master singing society soul study-plan subordination taught teach drawing thought tion triads WALTER SMITH week whole
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Page 33 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more •than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty.
Page 114 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 109 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
Page 99 - To establish public institutions, rewards, and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, trades, and manufactures.
Page 36 - Societies, and with individuals. 4. The Treasurer shall collect and receive all' moneys of the Institute, and shall render an accurate statement of all his receipts and payments, annually, and whenever called upon by the Board of Directors ; to whom he shall give such bonds for the faithful performance of his duty, as they shall require. He shall make no payment except by their order.
Page 82 - Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.
Page 111 - I have no conception of any manner in which the popular republican institutions under which we live could possibly be preserved, if early education were not freely furnished to all, by public law, in such forms that all shall gladly avail themselves of it.
Page 37 - These rules may be altered or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the board, by the member or members...
Page 157 - ... the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile ; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride,* or the provoking of sensuality. Another course lies open to us. We may abandon the...
Page 87 - The age wants heroes — heroes who shall dare To struggle in the solid ranks of truth ; To clutch the monster error by the throat ; To bear opinion to a loftier seat ; To blot the era of oppression out, And lead a universal freedom in.