The young woman's guide to excellence / by William A. Alcott.

  • William Alcott
Date:
1841
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    daughter. Necessity of self-education. The work of self-education the work of life—a never-ending progress upward to the throne of God 43—6 CHAPTER IV, LOVE OF IMPROVEMENT. Female capabilities. Doing every thing in the best possible manner. Unending progress. Every person and every occupatibn susceptible of improvement, indefinitely. Doing well what is before us. Anecdote illustrative of this principle. Personal duties. Two great classes of persons described. Hopes of reaching the ears of the selfish 62—60 CHAPTER V. SELF-KNOWLEDGE. Vast extent of the science of self-knowledge. Spurious self-knowledge. Knowledge of our physical frame— its laws and relations. Examples of the need of this knowledge. Instruments of obtaining it. The use of lectures. Study of our peculiarities. Study of mental philosophy. The Bible. How the Bible should be studied 61—74 CHAPTER VI. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. Is there any conscientiousness in the world ? How far conscientiousness should extend. Tendency and power of habit. Evils of doing incessantly what we know to be wrong. Why we do this. Errors of early education. False standard of right and wrong. Bad method of family discipline. Palsy of the moral sensibilities. Particular direction in regard to the education of con- science. Results which may be expected. , . . 75 - PSt