Revolution to Civil War (1800-1870)

Article #177 - Benefits of Lyceum

 

  Upon what does the prosperity of this association depend, having for its object the material improvement of its members and the general diffusion of knowledge.

 

[It will need the “effort of each member,” which is lacking. Motives are formed from “a just appreciation of the benefits to be derived from a certain course of action. Examples are given: temperance, capital punishment, coast-to-coast railroad, pursuit of scientific knowledge.]

Article #176 - Religion

 

Another year has gone

 

[The author describes the passing of time in florid language. He or she mentions the changes over the year--deaths, progression in “the arts and sciences towards perfection,” conversion of pagans to Christianity, and increased liberality in religion, moving believers away from old creeds and dogmas.]

 

Article #175 - How are fogs, clouds, dew, rain, hail and snow produced?

 

 How are fogs, clouds, dew, rain, hail and snow produced?

 

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Article #175 - How are fogs, clouds, dew, rain, hail and snow produced?

 

 How are fogs, clouds, dew, rain, hail and snow produced?

 

[This article is very faded and nearly impossible to read.]

Article #174 - Health

 

 How has the study of the science of Physiology led to the promotion of health

 

[The author has read a great deal in this subject and believes that, if mankind had lived in a healthy way, there would not be the great number of diseases and death as at the present time.]

 

Article #173 - Slavery

 

 Slavery

 

[The anonymous author says there is Northern slavery as well as Southern: the desire for popularity which prevents people from acting according to their consciences; political parties which force conformity to unworthy causes and suppress reform; and slavery to the passions.]

 

Article #172 - Slavery

 

     Editorial gleanings

--On June 2nd 1854 the Government cutter Morris was ordered by Franklin Pierce President to

            carry Anthony Burns from Boston, Mass. to Virginia to be enslaved forever.

--A telegraphic dispatch announces that Anthony Burns is to be sold to the far south

            to spend a life of slavery in the rice swamps and cotton fields.

--The Congregationalist says that the slave Burns belongs to the same church with Col.

Article #171 - Temperance

 

What proof or evidence is there that alcohol even in the smallest quantity is poisonous to the human system

 

            Poison is any thing that is injurious to health, any thing taken into the human system will either do evil or do good, when a man is in perfect health he needs nothing but for nutrition or to

quench thirst, there is no nutrition in alcohol neither will it quench thirst, therefore it will do no good; consequently do evil or be injurious, therefore it is a poison.

Article #170 - Discussion on Lyceums

 

 

 

            Would not the object of this association be more effectually promoted by confining the subjects of its Lectures Essays Questions and discussion strictly to science?

 

[No! says the author, E. P. Barnard. First, the dangers of liquor must be taught; as must, secondly, the injurious effects of tobacco.]

 

Article #169 - Purpose of Lyceum

 

  Question 9th

            Can any systematic course of Investigation of Scientific Subjects be persued [sic]

by this association

[The author, Eus. Barnard, answers in the affirmative, urging that all Lyceum members should and can study science and from it learn the rules of nature.]

 

 

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