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Study of Child-Nature
FROM
BY
ELIZABETH HARRISON
PRINCIPAL OF THE CHICAGO KINDERGARTEN COLLEGE
Eighth Edition
PUBLISHED BY
THE CHICAGO KINDERGARTEN COLLEGE
lo Van Buren St.
1895
c c C
COPYRIGHT, 1890.
Bv Elizabeth Harrison,
CHICAGO.
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
Preface.
Introduction.
The Instinxt of
Activity, or the
Chapter I.
Training of the
Muscles.
The Body. '
The Instinct of
Investigation, or
Chapter II
the Training of
the Senses.
The Instinct of
Chapter III. J Power, or the
Training of the
Emotions.
The Instinct of
Chapter IV. Love, or the
Training of the
Affections.
The Instinct of
The Mind. ^ Cpiapter V Continuity, o r
the Training of
the Reason.
The Instinct of
Chapter VI. Justice, or Right
AND Wrong Pun-
ishments.
The Instinct of
Chapter VII. Recognition, o r
the Training of
the Will.
The Instinct of
Chapter ^'III.
Reverence, o r
the Training of
the Worship.
The Soul. -
The Instinct of
Imitation, or the
Chapter IX. Training of the
Faith.
INTRODUCTION.
10 Introduction,
CHAPTER I.
THE BODY.
odious."
If the power of optimism is so great in lit-
CHAPTER II.
be a drunkard?
sibility tliat tlieir child is to
Little do they remember that he can be, even
before he has so much as tasted the cup and ;
agreeable disposition.
" But," exclaimed one mother to me, " do
you mean to say that you would not give any
confectionery to a child ? I think candy is the
THE MIND.
90
The Training of ilie Reason. 91
I, " do
you know what the little stomach does
when it gets hold of some nice meat?" "No,"
" Your little stom-
said the child, interested.
ach, you know," continued I, " has to change
the food you send down to it into blood and
.bone and muscle, so when it gets sugar and
cookies and things that taste nice to you
but do not help it to make strength, it twists
and turns them, and does the best it can with
them, but it cannot make very good blood with
I !
" exclaimed other little children. The next
day I told them of the hospital which I had
visited, and of the pleasure I thought it would
give the invalids if they knew that some dear
little children were intending to send them part
o arms of love.
neath are the everlasting Thus
will he learn the meaning of the message of
Christ to the Avorld that he came not to
reconcile God unto man, but man unto God.
And little by little will come the realization that
free-ivill is not the libertij to do lohatever one
likes, bid the poiver to compel one^s self to obey
the laws of right, to do what ought to be done
in the very face of otherwise overwhelming
impulse.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE SOUL.
opposite.
Without self-respect there is no possibility of
building up a law within. A human being who
has it not must remain forever subject to an
outside law: noblesse oblige must be an unknown
power to him. Therefore, any marring of that
precious germ is of incalculable injury to the
child's future stabilitv and strength of char-
acter. Let me crive you an illustration of the
value of this knowledsfe of attitudes to those
who must deal with that sensitive and yet
;;
God Of what
! use are the stories of the labors
of Hercules, of the wings of Mercury, of the
transforming powers of Circe, or a hundi'ed
other tales of a childish race, save that we see
portrayed in them the dim feeling of the hu-
man man must become the master of
heart that
creation,must control the forces of nature and
make them serve him, must be able to transfer
himself with little hindrance from place to
place,
aye, must govern his appetites or be-
come beastly; in a word, that the God-element
must conquer all the material outer world!
Such truths are of value, though put by the
child-race in such crude form; they are the
more serviceable to the mother from the fact
that they are expressed in simple, mythical
shape, as the child-mind is better able to grasp
truth in its poetic than in its abstract form,
With thorough preparation within herself, any
SEMESTER
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