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6. Learn to be cheerful, lively, animated, and mirthful; you will enjoy better health than if you are always sober and sedate. A bow is stronger for being sometimes unbent; so the muscles are stronger for being often relaxed, and the mind is more active and vigorous when we indulge in innocent recreation; for, though

"All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy,
All work and no play makes him a dull boy."

7. The cut represents a company of merry gentlemen who are listening to anecdotes.

6. What disposition should children cultivate? Why? 7. Explain the

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CHAPTER VII.

OBSERVING, PERCEPTIVE, AND KNOWING
FACULTIES.

We have now come to the purely intellectual faculties. These are divided into two general classes, the Perceptive and Reflective Faculties. We shall first speak of the Perceptive Faculties. Their general use or object is to look, see, remember, collect facts and anecdotes, and remember them. I will first tell you

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DEFINITION-Observation; power of seeing and noticing objects; desire of looking

at everything; curiosity.

LOCATION-Individuality is situated at the root of the nose, in the lower part of the forehead, and, when large, gives fulness there.

1. INDIVIDUALITY is one of the first organs that is developed in the mind of the child; and it is a wise order

What is the subject of chapter seventh? Into what two classes are these divided? What is the use of the perceptive faculties? What is the definition of Individuality? What is its location? 1. Of what use is this organ to the child, and when is it developed ?

of nature that such is the fact; for the infant is ignorant of everything around him. It does not even know or recognize its own parents, and has no idea whatever of any object in creation. Its mind is like a blank book full of leaves, but without ideas and impressions.

2. What is the first thing that the little tiny tender thing does? It opens its little eyes, and looks, looks; it gazes at everything around it, and the little creature appears to be delighted when its attention is attracted to any bright object, as the light, or fire.

3. The child observes, and by observing it distinguishes its mother, and is conscious when she is present. The older it becomes, the more it looks and notices; and when Imitation has taught it to prattle and talk, it commences to ask questions, which is as natural to the child

as to see.

4. You all know, children, that you can understand much better what flowers, birds, and animals are by seeing them, and when you receive instruction in school you know how much easier it is for you to understand, when your teacher shows you something which represents what she is talking about. Those who are born blind can learn a great deal, but they can comprehend but a very small portion of what they are deprived.

5. There was quite an aged gentleman who was so near-sighted, that he was unable to see the stars at night, some person procured a pair of spectacles for him, by which means his sight was so much improved that he could behold these worlds of beauty and light. His soul was filled with admiration, and he could never be satisfied

4. In what way can

2, 3. In what ways does it show this organ? children best understand what they learn? 5. Relate the anecdote of the gentleman who was near-sighted?

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in beholding them. He said that he never had an idea that they were half as beautiful.

6. Individuality is generally large in children, yet if it be not cultivated and strengthened by use, it will not be of much service. Two persons walk together in the street of a city; one will notice every house, every square, and every man and woman he meets, and will see everything that is to be seen; while the other only takes half a glance, and could not tell, the next time he passed through the same street, whether he had ever been there before or not. Travellers who visit the same countries give very different descriptions of the same places; because they have different degrees of Individuality, joined with other organs.

7. This organ sometimes gives curiosity to see and hear everything that transpires around us. It is this feeling of curiosity that probably disposes some children to be so meddlesome when they commence walking. They extend their hands, and put their little fingers on everything they see, and frequently do a great deal of mischief, while they are only seeing, seeing, looking, looking, just as they were designed to do.

8. The child crawls into the closet and pulls over the box of flour on its mother's clean carpet. This is amusement to the little one, and, unconscious of the mischief it has done, its little imagination has been exercised by thinking how beautifully the carpet was painted white.

9. You must not only look and observe, but you must

6. In whom is this organ generally large? In what way do persons show the strength or deficiency of this organ? 7. What feeling does this organ give? How do children frequently gratify it? What is probably their motive? 8. Illustrate this by the child.

learn to distinguish the difference between different things. Wherever you go, you must notice everything and use your Individuality.

10. If you should attend the museum, look distinctly at everything before you, and then ask questions about the birds, animals, and images. When you see an mdividual, look at his eyes, his hair, his nose, etc., and try to remember them. When you see a picture or engraving, observe every tree, figure, house, etc. In this way, and in this way only, you will gain much information, which will always be of service to you. 11. Of what use is your Benevolence if you do not discern the difference between true objects of charity and pretended beggars? You might give away all you possess, without benefiting those who needed alms. Of what use is your Constructiveness, if you do not notice the manner in which things are fitted and made? It will profit you nothing. Of what use is Ideality to you. unless you are delighted to observe the beauties and sublimities of nature? The rainbow would pass away before you noticed it. You could not appreciate the works of art, or of nature, merely because you do not see them.

12. In the cut, the gentleman is looking with his telescope at the stars. If he had no Individuality, he would not be able to perceive them, neither would he have any inclination to look at them.

Children, observe, look, take notice, and every day will add to your store of knowledge.

9. What must you do beside look and observe?

10. In what ways

can much information be gained? 11. When would Benevolence b useless! Constructiveness? Ideality? 12. Explain the cut. What organ does he use? What general direction is given to children?

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