THE Popular Educator. VOLUME I. ROYS MECHANICS INSTITL STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN, LA BELLE SAUVAGE YARD, LUDGATE HILL, E. C. TO OUR READERS A GLANCE at the opposite Index will snow to the purchasers of this volume what we have done, and are now doing, for the Education of the People. Our exertions have met with wide-spread and heart-felt encouragement, and we gratefully express our acknowledgments for the same. We shall make it our endeavour still more to deserve the encouragement of our subscribers, by increased efforts for their advancement in knowledge and learning. We intend to finish in the next volume, if possible, all the subjects which have been begun in this volume. Of course, it cannot be expected, under such circumstances, that we can commence a great variety of new subjects; as we wish to do justice to those which we undertake. Some of these, however, may be mentioned, as Penmanship, Short-hand, Mechanics, Chemistry, Astronomy, and Natural Philosophy. We have still much to do in Arithmetic, Geometry, and Geography, subjects of the greatest importance to the community at large, and subjects well calculated to expand, improve, and strengthen the reasoning powers; but as the bow must not be always bent, we shall endeavour, from time to time, to relieve these with lighter studies, as we have done in the present volume. 15 FEB 14 V. XIII. Proofs of the Four Common Rules........... XIV. Proofs of Multiplication and Division General Principles in Division Alexander Murray, Oriental Linguist Benjamin Franklin, Statesman ........ III., IV. The Grasses and the Corn Plants...... Classes: 1. Monandria, Mare's-tail, Starwort. 2. Dian- dria, Privet, Speedwell. 3. Triandria; Crocus, VI. Classes: 4. Tetrandria, Teazle, Woodruff, Madder, &c. VII. C'asses: 6. Hexandria, Hyacinth, Tulip, Lily, &c. 7. Heptandria, Chickweed; 8. Octandria, Heath, Knot- VIII. Classes: 9. Enneandria, Flowering Rush; 10. Decan- dria, Arbutus, Saxifrage, Catch-fly, Stone-crop, &c. Classes: 11. Dodecandria, Loose-strife, Agrimony; 12. Icosandria, Carnation, Pansy, Rhododendron, &c.... 280 ................ VI. ....... Sections XI., XII., XIII., Agreement of Adjectives, 76 85 75 VII. 235 VIII. Sections XXIV., XXV., Interrogative Form of Pre- LESSONS IN ANCIENT HISTORY.-No. I. HISTORY, in its narrowest sense, is the recital of past events. mitters of great crimes, unless we have a thorough acquaintIn its wider and higher meaning, it not merely relates by- ance with all the details of the act, whatever it may have gone occurrences, but inquires into their causes and conse-been, to which those motives have led. By it, as by their fruit, quences. These descriptions will hold good at whatever branch of it we look. There is Natural History, which has for its subjects the various natural occurrences which have taken place in the world and the different orders of animal and vegetable life which inhabit it; there is Life History, or biography, which records the sayings and doings of individual men; and lastly, there is the History of Nations, which tells of the various changes and revolutions which have occurred in human society, with the causes which led to them and the results by which they have been followed. It is to this last racters of those men who have acted a great part in the PILLARED HALL OF THE PALACE OF CARNAC. class of subjects that the general term History is usually which a knowledge of history brings with it. Presenting human nature as it does, in so many different lights, it spreads out, as in a map, the varied experience of ages, for the instruction and self-guidance of him who reflects while he reads. And from this he learns that the chief elements of human character are the same in all; that the same mental system, however undeveloped in some, and highly culti vated in others, belongs to the whole human family; and thus the wholesome and warning lesson is taught him, that, in all ages of the world, and under every variety of circumstances, whether it refer to men as individuals, or men collectively as nations, the maxim holds good, that "vice is its own punisher, and virtue its own rewarder." How great, then, is the advantage of the man who is well versed in history, ove |
