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CONTENTS.
The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age · Samuel Wilderspin
CHAPTER I.
RETROSPECT OF MY CAREER.
Days and scenes of childhood—Parental care—Power of early impressions—School experience—Commencements in business—Sunday school teaching and its results—Experiment on a large scale—Development of means and invention of implements—Heavy bereavement—Propagation of the system of education in the neighbourhood of London, and ultimately in most of the principal places in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland—Misapprehension and perversion of the principles of infant education—Signs of advancement—Hope for the future