A. BRONSON ALCOTT
"For curious method expect none, essays for the most part not being placed as at a feast, but placing themselves as at an ordinary."
Thomas Fuller.
BOSTON
ROBERTS BROTHERS
1868.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
A. Bronson Alcott,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Electrotyped and Printed by
Alfred Mudge & Son,
No. 34 School St., Boston.
CONTENTS.
| BOOK I.—PRACTICAL. | |
| I. THE GARDEN. | page. |
| [1] Antiquity | 5 |
| [2] Ornaments | 11 |
| [3] Pleasures | 14 |
| [4] Orchard | 20 |
| [5] Sweet Herbs | 25 |
| [6] Table Plants | 28 |
| [7] Rations | 36 |
| [8] Economies | 41 |
| [9] Rural Culture | 48 |
| II. RECREATION. | |
| [1] TheFountains | 59 |
| [2] The CheapPhysician | 65 |
| III. FELLOWSHIP. | |
| [1]Hospitality | 69 |
| [2]Conversation | 75 |
| IV. FRIENDSHIP. | |
| [1] Persons | 81 |
| [2] Woman | 88 |
| [3] Family | 92 |
| [4] Children | 95 |
| V. CULTURE. | |
| [1] ModernTeaching | 103 |
| [2] SocraticDialectic | 108 |
| [3] PythagoreanDiscipline | 113 |
| [4] Mother Tongue | 118 |
| VI. [BOOKS]. | 127 |
| VII. COUNSELS. | |
| [1] Religious | 139 |
| [2] Personal | 145 |
| [3] Political | 148 |
| [4] Soul's Errand | 151 |
BOOKII.—SPECULATIVE. | |
| I. INSTRUMENTALITIES. | |
| [1]Tendencies | 159 |
| [2] Method | 162 |
| [3] Man | 166 |
| II. MIND. | |
| [1] Ideas | 173 |
| [2] The Gifts | 179 |
| [3] Person | 181 |
| [4] Choice | 184 |
| III. GENESIS. | |
| [1] Vestiges | 189 |
| [2] SerpentSymbol | 191 |
| [3] Embryons | 193 |
| [4]Temperament | 195 |
| IV. METAMORPHOSES. | |
| [1] Sleep | 201 |
| [2]Reminiscence | 203 |
| [3]Immortality | 205 |