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energies of the individual? According to Herbert Spencer, ‘‘ the pro- 
cess in which life essentially consists is the continuous maintenance of 
an equilibrium between the organism and its environment.’’ It is 
evident that this want of equipoise or correspondence between the inner 
and outer life of the individual causes great failures in life. For ages the 
human race has been a prey to every variety of crime, and nations have 
risen only to fall into degradation. The same fate is before us unless we 
give to each child its inalienable right to develop its whole nature to its 
highest power of development. What an uplifting to all civilization 
would take place in a few generations if a truly wise and philosophical 
training could be given to young children in order rightly to stimulate 
their mental and moral powers. There are families who for many 
years have given great attention to this important subject, but there 
has been no general movement toward this object. From an economical 
standpoint it might by wise to endeavor to uplift the masses in this 
manner, for the ancients teach us that one member cannot suffer injury 
without danger to the whole body. 
The paper on the ‘‘ Origin of the Name Chautauqua,” by Albert S. 
Gatschet, stated at length the linguistic reasons why this name, which 
is worded on the Seneca-Iroquois language still spoken in Western New 
York, cannot signify anything else but ‘‘one has taken out fish 
there.’’ It is pronounced by these Indians T’kan Tchatak Wan, and 
the old English and French documents vary enormously in their mode 
of writing it. It is probable that fish were taken out by the Indians 
from Lake Chautauqua to stock the brooks and ponds of the vicinity. 
The author proposes to change the orthography of Oe into 
the more scientific Chatakwa. 
Am. Nat.—October.—6. 
