Prize Essay And Lectures Delivered Before The American Institute Of Instruction Including The Journal Of Proceedings

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Excerpt from Prize Essay and Lectures: Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at New Haven, Conn., August, 1853; Including the Journal of Proceedings, and a List of the Officers Science enter. We must limit ourselves to consider only Science in contradistinction from Philosophy. All the sciences have not advanced with equal pace. When Mathematics had reached comparative maturity, the others were found behind, Mechanics and Astronomy, however, taking the lead. Their fundamental conceptions and laws are now firmly established, while Physiology is yet in its infancy, and even Chemistry consists of scarcely more than slightly connected facts, with few wide generaliza tions. Of the pure sciences, Mathematics is the simplest, Physiology the most complex. Mechanics requires a knowledge of Mathematics, physics of mechanics; Chemistry depends on Physics, and no one unacquainted with Chemistry would pretend to the name of a physiologist. Mathematics, though it may be brilliantly pursued without the others, still is necessary for success in them. Mathematical science is of less importance as learning, - very real and valuable notwithstanding, than as constituting the most powerful instrument the human mind can employ in its research into the laws of natural phenomena. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Lectures: Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at Lowell, (Mass;) August, 1838; Including the Journal of Proceedings, and a List of the Officers Preliminary, subject of lecture, 33, - in the complex organization of human nature, the supremacy belongs to the moral and religious power, 34, -the universe framed and governed in conformity to this supremacy, 35 this principle not generally recognised, 36, this especially true among ourselves, the prominent defects of our national character, moral rather than intellectual,37, - what can the American Institute do toward reme dying these defects it can do much by establishing and illustrating great principles, 39, the importance of early moral culture,40 the moral and intellectual characteristics of childhood, the early activity of the moral and religious nature, 40, - the intellect may remain nearly dormant, this not true of the higher and the lower nature, 42, one or the other of these will be active, the intellect alike susceptible of culture in connexion with the activity of either the higher or the lower nature, the intellect not the antagonist power to the selfish and animal nature, 43 -ignorance of this truth a source of great and fatal mistake in relation to some subjects of moral reform, each power of the mind must be educated through the agency of its own related objects, theological science not moral principle or religious feeling, 45, connexion of science and religion, 46, the highest greatness and the truest happiness founded more on the moral than the intellectual nature, 49. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.