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school wanting the very rudiments of life-education? 

 Above all, shall we leave them ignorant of the func- 

 tions of the very bodies their spirits dwell in, and 

 thus a prey, themselves, and their children, to all dis- 

 asters which ignorance of the laws of life brings with 

 it ? I say that schools that neglect all this, are not 

 good schools, and we cannot complain of the tax- 

 payer grudging his money, when he finds his child- 

 ren learn so little that is useful." — Professor W. P. 

 At kin so 7i. 



W. L. WHITTEMORE. 

 March, 1869. 





