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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
COEPOEAL PUNISHMENT. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY MR. G. JAGO. 
(Read November 3rd, 1881.) 
Having given some reasons why those who commit crime should 
be punished, the Lecturer enquired if the infliction of punishment 
should be private or public, and what was the effect produced by- 
public executions'? Flogging at school; school discipline; refor- 
matory schools ; industrial schools ; and truant schools, were then 
treated of, with remarks and conclusion. 
THE PLACE OF POETEY IN EDUCATION. 
ABSTRACT OF LECTURE BY DR. W. H. PEARSE. 
(Read November 10th, 1881.) 
The Lecturer argued that in all historic periods, and in those 
nations which had high culture, poetry had a chief place in the 
national life. This fact was seen in the earliest known writings of 
men; e.g. those of the Hindoos. The poetic stream ran down 
through eastern nations, and on through Greece and Eome. Hindu, 
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin poetry have influenced mankind far 
beyond all other known forces, and are still as fully as ever 
influencing human thought. On another view, from childhood to 
age, no writing gives so much joy, or so powerfully catches the 
attention, as poetry. Thus both the history of mankind and 
individual experience show the large place which poetry occupies 
in man's history. The fairy legend, both of the East and of 
Europe, was an expression of the poetic spirit ; it satisfied so far 
