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Title: The fountain : with jets of new meanings
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Spiritualism
Publisher: Boston : William White & Co. New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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earned, and when earned punctually awarded. WISDOM OF GETTING KNOWLEDGE. 109 When an artist, by a few bold, strong strokesmakes a likeness, it is usually a caricature. The por-trait, life-like and soulful, is worked up by ten thou-sand microscopic touches, all of them guided by a mas-ters eye. And when a child is to be educated, theremay be educational geniuses, who, by a few boldwords or blows, at critical moments, shape a character.But the perfect work is accomplished by them onlywho, by daily little touches, all loving and all con-sistent, work up a result, which, after years of perse-verance, we call success, for we have been workers withGod, and have worked as He works. So thinks one who loves little children and livesin the life of childhood. But concerning the internal principles and attrac-tive methods of true education, as developed in theProgressive Lyceum System, much more remains tobe written, which makes the following chapter neces-sary to both the reader and the subject.
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VII. The Childrens Progressive Lyceum. THE Plymouth pastor, with a candor characteristicof the plenitude of his wholesomeness, testifiesthat he has not one single pleasant memory con-nected with primary schools ; they lie in his recollec-tion as cunningly devised engines for putting poor,little, innocent, roguish boys to torment; and eventhe ever-grateful Whittier, reviewing the shadow-shapes of memory, recalls the patient old countrypedagogue— THE PROGRESSIVE LYCEUM. Ill In that smoked and dingy room,Where the district gave him ruleOer its ragged winter school. But, O, believe me, kind reader, a higher revela-tion has dawned upon the world. As there is anoctave of colors, and an octave of sounds, higher thanthose which come within the range of purely physicaleyes and ears, and therefore unknown, because invisi-ble and inaudible to ordinary humanity ; so is there asystem of physicaland mental culturehigher than anything now indi-cated or knownin the popularworld of educa-tion. (No p

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