"Roger Williams"; "Hugh Peters"; "Sir George Downing"; "The British Navigation Act of 1651" Edward Everett: "Introductory Lecture" William H. Gardiner: "Ancient Mexico" George Putnam: "The Circuit of the Waters" Edward T. Channing: "Modern Demonstrative Eloquence"; "Mental Habits of Writers" 1838 Edward T. Channing: "Richard Steele and the Periodical Essays of Queen Anne's Time"; "Literary Decisions"; "The Education of an Orator" James Walker: "The Progress of Civilization as Affected by Systems of Philosophy"; "Materialism"; "Transcendentalism"; "Phrenology"; "Animal Magnetism" Horace Mann: "Education-Its Necessity"; "Education-Its Processes"; "Education-Its Objects" Jared Sparks: American Revolution 1839 William Adam: "India" Francis C. Gray: English Language and Literature Orville Dewey: "The Moral Philosophy of Human Life"; "The Moral Philosophy of History" 1840 Convers Francis: "The Relation of Literature to the Time"; "The Interpretation of the Past"; "The Huguenots in America" John Brazer: "The Difference between English and Ancient Classical Poetry" John Quincy Adams: "The Social Nature of Man and Its Influence upon the Moral Condition" William H. Simmons: "The British Poets"; "The Poetry of Milton"; "Cowper and the Satirical Poets"; "The Poetry of Byron"' Henry R. Cleveland: "Characters of Classical and Romantic Fiction" 1841 Charles Francis Adams: "Shakespeare"" John Quincy Adams: "The Chinese War" Henry W. Bellows: "The Formation of Opinions" John S. Dwight: "The Musical Life" Henry Giles: "The Poet Burns"; "The Poet Crabbe" Frederic Henry Hedge: "The Philosophy of Literature" William Mitchell: Astronomy John Lord: "Institutions of the Middle Ages" 1842 George Bancroft: "American Independence: A Consequence of the Reformation-Mayhew"; "The French War, A War of Revolution"; "Increase of Despotic Power in the European World"; "Boston in 1765" Charles Eames: "The Spirit of American History"; "The Commercial System"; "The Unity and Result of Ancient History" Henry Giles: "Elements and Illustration of Irish Character"; "Byron" Francis C. Gray: "Shakespeare" Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Astrology and Alchemy"; "Medical Delusions of the Past"; "Homeopathy" Ephraim Peabody: "The British Power in India" Josiah Quincy: "Introductory Lecture" 1843 Richard Henry Dana Jr.: "The Foundation of Influence"; "American Loyalty" E. T. Fitch: "Music as Fine Art" Edward Reynolds: Human anatomy Thaddeus W. Harris: "Zoology" 1847 Louis Agassiz: "The Alps and Glaciers" See also Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London (est.1826) References Further reading Constitution of the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. In: American journal of education, v.4, no.2, March–April 1829 Review: American Library of Useful Knowledge. North American Review, Vol. 33, No. 73 (Oct., 1831), pp. 515–530 Helen