title: The Improvement of the Mind: A Supplement to the Art of Logic With a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (Great Awakening Writings, 1725-1760)
author:  Isaac Watts 
description: This is the sequel to Isaac Watt's Logic. A disciplined mind is one of the most conspicuously missing things in our society. This book can help alleviate that malady. The subtitle of this book is, "Communication of useful knowledge in religion, in the sciences, and in common life." This is a lithograph of an 1833 edition printed in London which also contains "A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth.
zlib_text: The Enquirer
  Reflections On Education, Manners, And Literature. In A Series Of Essays.
  William Godwin
  1797
  
  Contents
  Part I.
  3
  Essay I. Of Awakening the Mind
  4
  Essay II. Of the Utility of Talents
  6
  Essay III. Of the Sources of Genius.
  8
  Essay IV. Of the Sources of Genius.
  11
  Essay V. Of an Early Taste for Reading.
  15
  Essay VI. Of the Study of the Classics.
  18
  Essay VII. Of Public and Private Education.
  25
  Essay VIII. Of the Happiness of Youth.
  28
  Essay IX. Of the Communication of Knowledge.
  32
  Part II.
  36
  Essay I. Of Riches and Poverty.
  37
  Essay II. Of Avarice and Profusion.
  40
  Essay VI. Of Self-Denial.
  42
  Essay XI. Of Learning.
  47
  2
  
  Part I.
  
  Essay I. Of Awakening the Mind
  The true object of education, like that of every other moral process, is the generation of hap-
  piness.
  Happiness to the individual in the first place. If individuals were universally happy, the species
  would be happy.
  Man is a social being. In society the interests of individuals are interwisted with each other,
  an