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TABLETS
by
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 The Fountains 59
2 The Cheap Physician 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 Modern Teaching 103
2 Socratic Dialectic 108
3 Pythagorean Discipline 113
4 Mother Tongue 118
VI. BOOKS. 127
VII. COUNSELS.
1 Religious 139
2 Personal 145
3 Political 148
4 Soul's Errand 151