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Heath's Pedagogical Library—4
ÉMILE:
- OR, CONCERNING EDUCATION
  - BY
  - JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
- EXTRACTS
  - CONTAINING THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF PEDAGOGY FOUND IN THE FIRST THREE BOOKS; WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY
  - JULES STEEG, DÉPUTÉ, PARIS, FRANCE
    - TRANSLATED BY
  - ELEANOR WORTHINGTON
    - FORMERLY OF THE COOK COUNTY (ILL.) NORMAL SCHOOL
  - D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS BOSTON — NEW YORK — CHICAGO
  - TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
  - INTRODUCTION.
- BOOK FIRST.
  - GENERAL REMARKS.
    - The Object of Education.
    - The New-born Child.
    - The Earliest Education.
    - Maxims to Keep us True to Nature.
    - Language.
- BOOK SECOND.
  - Avoid taking too many Precautions.
    - Childhood is to be Loved.
    - Neither Slaves nor Tyrants.
    - Reasoning should not begin too soon.
    - Well-Regulated Liberty.
    - Proceed Slowly.
    - The Idea of Property.
    - Falsehood. The Force of Example.
    - Negative or Temporizing Education.
    - Concerning the Memory.
    - On the Study of Words.
    - Physical Training.
    - Clothing.
    - Sleep.
    - Exercise of the Senses.
    - The Sense of Touch.
    - The Sense of Sight.
    - Drawing.
    - Geometry.
    - Hearing.
    - The Voice.
    - The Sense of Taste.
    - Result. The Pupil at the Age of Ten or Twelve.
- BOOK THIRD.
  - The Age of Study.
    - The Incentive of Curiosity.
    - Things Rather than their Signs.
    - Imparting a Taste for Science.
    - The Juggler.
    - Experimental Physics.
    - Nothing to be Taken upon Authority. Learning from the Pupil's own Necessities.
    - Finding out the East. The Forest of Montmorency.
    - Robinson Crusoe.
    - Judging from Appearances. The Broken Stick.
    - Result. The Pupil at the Age of Fifteen.