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the author, this volume is given to the public, with the hope that it
may contribute, in some degree, to advance the work of general education
in the United States, but more especially in the State of Michigan.

IRA MAYHEW.

Monroe, Mich., July 4th, 1850.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
In what does a correct Education consist? Page 13

CHAPTER II.
The Importance of Physical Education 28

CHAPTER III.
Physical Education--The Laws of Health 44

CHAPTER IV.
The Laws of Health--Philosophy of Respiration 81

CHAPTER V.
The Nature of Intellectual and Moral Education 111

CHAPTER VI.
The Education of the Five Senses 146

CHAPTER VII.
The Necessity of Moral and Religious Education 193

CHAPTER VIII.
The Importance of Popular Education 224
Education dissipates the Evils of Ignorance 226
Education increases the Productiveness of Labor 253
Education diminishes Pauperism and Crime 286
Education increases human Happiness 311

CHAPTER IX.
Political Necessity of National Education 325
The Practicability of National Education 353

CHAPTER X.
The Means of Universal Education 362
Good School-houses should be provided 372
Well-qualified Teachers should be employed 410
Schools should continue through the Year 440
Every Child should attend School 442
The redeeming Power of Common Schools 454

INDEX. 461

NATIONAL POPULAR EDUCATION.

CHAPTER I.

IN WHAT DOES A CORRECT EDUCATION CONSIST?

I call that education which embraces the culture of the whole man,
with all his faculties--subjecting his senses, his understanding,
and his passions to reason, to conscience, and to the evangelical
laws of the Christian revelation.--DE FELLENBERG.

From the beginning of human records to the present time, the inferior
animals have changed as little as the herbage upon which they feed, or
the trees beneath which they find shelter. In one generation, they
attain all the perfection of which their nature is susceptible. That
Bein