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"Fighting against Wrong, and for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful." FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. THE LITTLE CORPORAL Is acknowledged by the leading papers to be the BEST JUVENILE PAPER IN AMERICA! PUBLISHED MONTHLY, BY ALFRED L. SEWELL, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. (0: $1.00 a Year in Advance.-Sample Copy, 10 Cents. 1:0: For the sake of doubling our already very large list, we offer a Magnificent List of Premiums! We will only give a synopsis here. For particulars see the last uumber of The Little Corporal, which can be had by mail, on application. The list is as follows: 1. Parlor Organs and Melodeons are offered as premiums for large clubs of new subscribers. This is a splendid chance for Schools or Families to secure fine instruments easily. See last number of The Little Corporal. 2. "The Heavenly Cherubs," our magnificent premium picture. See same paper. 3. All who send six names, with six dollars, at one time, will receive the premium picture and The Little Corporal free, for one year, either 1866 or 1867. 4. For a club of ten, at $1 each, we send free, a copy of The Little Corporal for one year, and a box of beautiful water colors, worth $1. 5. For a club of fifteen, at $1 each, we send free, a copy of the premium picture, a copy of The Little Corporal for one year, and a large box of fine water colors, worth $1.50. 6. We are also offering Sewing Machines as Premiums.. Write for the SewingMachine Circular. As a sample of the thousands of indorsements we have received, altogether gratuitous, we give the following from the January number of The American Phrenological Journal of New York: The Little Corporal.-Mr. Sewell's Western juvenile surpasses, both in real merit and in circulation, any similar attempt, East or West. His success excites the cupidity of others, and we now have a swarm of juvenile journals launched on the uncertain sea of experiment. While we wish well to all good endeavors, we must award the credit to The Little Corporal of leading the van. The Springfield (0.) Republic says:"The Little Corporal is the unrivaled juvenile paper of the West, and is unsurpassed by any in the world." The Little Corporal, though styled a children's paper, is a General within itself. It is master of the situation, and has the key to every child's heart. The terms are one dollar a year.-Piqua (0.) Democrat. As the press everywhere speaks in the highest terms of Mr. Sewell's children's magazine, we can only, after a careful examination, re-echo the universal acclaim.-Monitor (Alliance, 0.) Alfred L. Sewell, the gentlemen who succeeded so admirably in raising the Army of the American Eagle, and by that means presenting such an enormous sum to the relief of our poor, sick and wounded soldiers, has succeeded in establishing on a firm, and we trust an enduring basis, The Little Corporal, and the reason that he has succeeded so well, is because he has made it the best child's paper in America. -Chronicle (Dodgeville, Wis.) **Money may be sent at our risk when sent by draft or money order, or where neither of these can be obtained, in a registered letter. ADDRESS ALFRED L. SEWELL, Publisher of The Little Corporal, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. SPECAIL INDUCEMENTS TO TEACHERS. A THE FORCES OF HUMAN NATURE UNDER CULTIVATION.-No. 1. BY PHILOMATH. Education begins its work upon what is already perfectly constituted. Human nature is far on its way of growth before the teacher comes with his rough instruments, to dig about and trim it in supposed timely preparation for the descent of sunlight and shower. The first step in teaching, in training the life, the whole life of body, mind and soul, is to accept this truth in its full meaning. It may be justly said of teachers, that they do not stop at the outset to ascertain the number, character, and relations of the forces or energies which they assume to be able to direct in the right roads to knowledge, to wisdom, and to power. We ought not to extenuate our conceit by saying that it is not peculiar to the schoolmaster "to put on airs," to assume that he is able to do those things that he is but poorly capable of doing. I never knew a man or woman who was not deemed competent by one person, at least, to teach school. Putting aside all assumption, let us look at our work as broadly and deeply as we may be able to do, to ascertain, each one for himself, (1) the nature of what is to be cultivated; (2) when to begin the work; (3) how to proceed; and then we can intelli gently determine (4) whether to undertake or decline the business of teaching. I think it will be generally admitted, that, as yet, there has been no satisfactory setting forth of human nature entire, in relation to the laws and circumstances which govern its growth. Until this is in some measure done, we can not agree upon any common means, the using of which will, without doubt, aid these laws in the development of human character. And let us remember that the office of education, at the expense of the State especially, is not to make a book agent, a lawyer, a merchant, or a congressman, but a man rather, a man according to the meaning of the word, "One who thinks." A great writer on the science of mind gives us a valuable hint with which to start. The subdivision of the intellect into faculties is abandoned, and laws of thought and laws of action are treated of. For example, that we remember being known to us all, it is less important to seek for the precise locality, and to know what that subtle something is that remembers, than to learn what are the conditions, circumstances, and events, which most favor an exact and tenacious remembering. This much being found out, we shall not be at a loss for a method of educating the memory. We shall have solid ground to stand upon. Atoms crystallize, plants grow, animals act, and men think, all under law, and each succeeding stage of being is in some way influenced by the laws that governed its predecessors in the order of existence. We can not alter the constitution of things; and when we interfere through ignorance, or wilfully, with the course of law, evil is sure to result. By law we mean a form, an order of effects, a rule of action, a way of doing. From a merely human point of view, physical laws are the harmonizing relations of things: laws of life are vital processes of growth; laws of thought are conditions of mental activity; and moral laws are right ways of doing. Every law is framed for a purpose. In the realms of nature of mind, and of human action, every consistent, permanent law is for the best,-is prescribed by an authority that commands our respect. We can not do otherwise than submit to these "powers that be." A man, conscious of the right to do as he pleases regardless of all restraint, may prepare his ground, and plant his corn in October, and he may give as a reason for his folly that this was the only time he could spare for this work, forgetting nature's all-controlling law that "there is a time for everything." |