THE

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INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE

AND THE

LECTURES

DELIVERED BEFORE THE

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION,

IN

BOSTON, AUGUST, 1834.

INCLUDING THE JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS,

AND

A LIST OF THE OFFICERS.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE BOARD OF CENSORS.

BOSTON:
CARTER, HENDEE AND CO.
1835.

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Advancement characteristic of the European stock, 3 modes in which

it is effected-individual efforts - voluntary societies, 4-the true

uses of instruction, 5- Rousseau's views, 6- Condorcet's doctrine of per-

fectibility, 7-popular education, 7-analysis of the elementary parts of

instruction, 8-moral cultivation recommended by Locke, Kames, and

Milton, 10- Mr Roebuck's motion in the House of Commons, 10

Cobbett's objections to popular education considered, 11- statistics of crime

in England and Russia, 15-discussions in France relating to popular

education, 17— distinctions between the population of America and of

Europe, 19 in political institutions, 19-in intellectual condition, 20

in their moral and religious condition, 22 source of this difference, 23 -

union of moral and intellectual instruction the only true basis of popular

education, 25— danger to our social system from disorganizing principles,

27- Appendix.

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LECTURE I.

ON THE BEST MODE OF FIXING THE ATTENTION OF THE

YOUNG. BY WARREN BURTON.

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Attention to be secured by adequate motives, 43-emulation defined,
- objections to it its injustice, 45. its injury to health, 47- diverts

the student from the real end of study, 48- does not produce its intended

effects, 49- a substitute for emulation proposed, 50 — self-comparison, 51