Whatever we have seen makes a much stronger impression upon us.

Perception is the first power of mind which is brought into action, and the one made use of with most ease and pleasure.

For this reason object lessons are indispensable in an infant school, consisting both of real substances and of pictures.

The first lesson in Paradise was of this kind, and we ought therefore to draw instruction from it.

"And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name of it.".