ck apply equally to the school.

This principle of giving and receiving we also see exemplified in Nature.
Animals inhale oxygen from the air and return carbonic acid, which serves
to build up the structure of the plant, and the latter in its turn gives
out oxygen to supply the consumption of animals.

Every day--in the middle of the day, in winter, in the summer, early in
the morning, or in the evening--gymnastic training on the system of the
Swedish anatomist Ling or of the German Turners would form a portion of
the curriculum, for which convenient apparatus would be provided.

Biography should form an important feature in the course of reading, its
subjects being arranged in groups; and the true glory of a Washington, a
Bentham, a Stevenson, a Morse, and a Cobden distinguished from the false
glare and tinsel of a Louis XIV. and a Marlborough.

Music, both vocal and instrumental, would be taught to all, but only those
more gifted by nature would be educated to perform solo. Nearly all
persons can be trained to sing part-music pleasantly and intelligently,
and to perform moderately on some instrument. The cultivation of the
musical faculties harmonizes the mind, and affords a never-failing source
of solace and recreation. The attempt to convert all persons into solo
performers, and the hypocritical applause with which their discordant
notes are indiscriminately greeted, deprives society of the pleasures
which part-music well performed would afford, by encouraging all to
attempt what they are pretty sure to do badly, to the exclusion of what
they would be equally likely to do well.

We have reserved for the last, to enumerate what is, perhaps, the most
important of all the subjects of instruction.

TO ALL children, so soon as they can be promoted from the _kinder
garten_--perhaps even to the higher grades therein--instruction in the
conditions of human well-being, and in the phenomena and arrangements of
social life should be given, and should be continued throughout their
school career.

What! teach political economy to children? Even so. It will be conceded,
that to teach the future laborers the laws by which the wages of their
labor will be regulated, how high wages may be secured and low wages
prevented--to teach the future capitalists the laws by which their profits
will be determined, how large profits may be secured, and loss, failure,
crises, and panics avoided--must be a desirable, if it be a practicable