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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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asant 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 philoso-pher ever imag-ined the possibil-ity of making per-fect men andwomen out of boysand girls as theyare at present in-structed and mis-educated. Themethods of mo-
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WISDOMS WATS ARE PLEASANT, BUT CANNOT BEENTERED BY VIOLENCE. 112 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. ther Nature are generally misconceived, or else en-tirely ignored, by the powers that be. Compare the trifold organization of the little child—the foundation of the future man or woman—withthe worlds educational methods, and at once you dis-cern the causes why children dread to attend eitherpublic or private schools. For the same reason theydread shoes that pinch their tender feet, or garmentsthat aggravate because they do not fit and meet thedemands of their young and sensitive bodies. A truemechanic makes his machinery exactly to accomplishthe end and uses which originally fired his ambitionand inspired his understanding. Sucli a mechanic,true to the laws of his noble science, works to onegreat point: To accomplish the largest and best resultsby his invention, with as little noise, with as little fric-tion, with as little wear and tear and expense,- as ispossible in the nature and constitution

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