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3. They would learn in a general but efficient manner the funda- 

 mental industrial processes which underlie the more special processes 

 of the common arts. 



4. This general but genuine knowledge of materials, forces, and 

 processes, will enable each student to choose, with a fair degree of in- 

 telligence, the industry for which he or she is fitted by special taste 

 and power. 



5. Such a course would make far easier than now the change from 

 one occupation to another, which must ever remain an incident of 

 growing industries. 



6. It would give to each person, as employer, some power to judge 

 of the work of the employed. 



7. It would furnish a basis, in intelligence, for general sympathy 

 and appreciation among different classes of workers. 



8. The last and greatest good would be the cultivation of the in- 

 dustrial disposition, and the killing out of the absurd idea that our 

 schools are free. 



The schools simply represent society organized for the education of 

 its children. Every stroke of work done in these schools has to be 

 paid for, and at the proper time children should understand this fact, 

 and should manifest their gratitude by doing all in their power for 

 the betterment of the schools and the proper equipment of the rooms. 

 This, I conceive, would form a most fitting introduction to the great 

 industrial world, and would go far toward building up that spirit of 

 industry and mutual helpfulness which should form the essential 

 characteristic of the American citizen. 



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PHYSIOGNOMIC CUKIOSITIES. 



By FELIX L. OSWALD, M. D. 



IF the proper study of mankind is man, it is a remarkable circum- 

 stance that the most important departments of that study are still 

 alloyed with such an excessive percentage of spurious elements, and 

 that their exponents persist in identifying their interests with the de- 

 fense of those apocryphal parts of their doctrine. Hygiene, in the 

 legitimate sense of the word, is simply the art of avoiding sins against 

 the Health laws of Nature, but the proposition to omit therapeutics 

 (poison-mongery, as Dio Lewis used to call it) from the curriculum of 

 a medical college would provoke a worse storm of protest than the 

 first attempt to divorce astronomy from astrology. In points of ethics 

 conservatism is a more than professional duty, yet the Rev. Mr. Free- 

 kirk, as well as Bishop Highchurch, and Rabbi Tabernacle, is tolerance 

 in person till you question one of hia mythological tenets. Phrenol- 



TOL. XXI. 52 



