230 Edzvard Livingston Youmans. 



NEW YORK, March 77, 1867. 



DEAR SISTER : I am here at the club,* where I have a 

 warm, pleasant room to work in. It is now four, and I 

 have done an excellent day's work. We have had a diabol- 

 ical storm, and the snow is two feet deep. I have dashed 

 off a rough scheme of study, a rude curriculum, which I 

 will transcribe. If you can help me on it please do so. 



1. Home and Primary Education, in which are to be ac- 

 quired correct habits of expression, familiarity with the 

 properties of common things by the intelligent employment 

 of the object method, reading, drawing, writing, elemen- 

 tary numbers, elementary form, etc. 



2. The Discipline of the Physical and Mathematical Sci- 

 ences arithmetic, geometry, natural philosophy, chemistry 

 establishing systematic habits of continuous attention, of 

 observation, induction, deduction, and verification of truths. 

 Familiarity with the conception of cause, law, necessary 

 truth, and with the history of the growth of physical and 

 mathematical sciences. Thus preparing for 



3. The Discipline of the Biological Sciences botany, zool- 

 ogy, physiology, geology. Extension of the idea of law 

 and sensation into the departments of life and familiariz- 

 ing with the conditions of inquiry and methods of reason- 

 ing in this department of thought, with the history of the 

 growth of these departments of knowledge. This is a 

 preparation for 



4. The Discipli?ie of the Psychological or Representative 

 Sciences mental philosophy, logic philosophy. Forming 

 the threefold basis for the systematic study of litera- 

 ture, history, ethnology, social science, government, and 

 morality. 



This division is on the basis of discipline, as I shall be 



* The Century Club, in its pleasant and ever-to-be-regretted old home 

 on Fifteenth Street. 



