I searched the print shops in the metropolis, and with the aid of drawings from friends, supplied this deficiency.

Next I had suitable lessons printed to accompany them, and also spelling lessons of such words as could be _acted_ and _explained_.

Then followed suitable reading lessons, prints of objects, and the simple forms of geometry.

When a demand was created for all these, the publishing trade took them up, and thus the numerous excellent plates and lessons now published for the purposes of teaching, had their first origin.
I ant thoroughly convinced that the first seven years of a child's life is the _golden period_, and if I can induce mankind generally to think with me, and to act on the principles humbly laid open in the succeeding chapters of this book, I may feel some consolation that I have not lived in vain.

Sure I am that if the world will only give man a fair chance, and train him from the beginning with care, with prudence, with caution, with circumspection, with freedom, and above all with _love_, he will bear such fruit, under the blessing of God, as will make even this world as a paradise.