ENTERED according to act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six, by RUSSELL, SHATTUCK & COMPANY, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

Reasons why External Nature should not be the first department of

study,

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Practicableness of children's studying their Inward Nature,..

Facility of the young mind in apprehending the Infinite,

The first Cause,..

Mr. Alcott's teaching not intended to be dogmatic,.

Avenue to Inward Nature through language,

Self-Analysis; its dangers and advantages,

Mr. Alcott's success,

Principle of questionable methods,.

Attention the first principle of intellectual life.......
Moral source of attention,...

True object of the Intellect can be made its first object,
Influences of External Nature not undervalued,....

Illusions on the subject of Natural Sciences,..

Preparation for the study of Natural Science,.

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.7-8

...9-10

.11-12

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.13, 14, 15, 16

.17, 18, 19

.19-20

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.20-21.

.21.

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22-23

.24-25

.27-28

.28, 29, 30

.30, 31, 32, 33

..34, 35, 36, 37

Use of Biography; of journals; of the study of native tongue,.....26—27

False impressions on this subject of Mr. Alcott's views and practice,...25

CHAP. II. JOURNAL.

Plan of it,.

26

The illustration of words 27. 30. 35. 41. 49. 51. 54. 59. 67. 74. 78. 83. 90.

CHAP. IV. CONCLUSION.

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Reasons why the chapter on General Principles is left out,.
A conversation held in a Sunday School, on the Nature of the soul,..169
Remarks on it,.

NEW APPENDIX.

Order of exercises in school, in the winter of 1835–6,..

Journal of the same winter from the diary of a little girl,..

Extracts from the journal of a boy ten years old, .
Extracts from the journal of a boy eleven years old,

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..177-190

.191-194

.194-198