Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1877, By Prof. H. M. KOTTINGER, A. M., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. ΤΟ F. UNDERWOOD, ESQ., THE TRUE FRIEND OF tought and Religious Progress, Who recommended this Book to the BERAL PUBLIC, IT IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY ITS AUTHOR, ROF. H. M. KOTTINGER. PART FIRST. L CULTURE. with the ethical. A belief, as yet fitful and partial, gst men, that here also there is an indissoluble bond nce, an inexorable destiny, a law, which altereth not.” H. SPENCER, "Social Statics." country. That ot of the evil; let ts the hope of ou Five years ago th day Schools of the erica ("Leitfade reier Gemeinden, preme Board, and hools. This work beral education of tempt the publicat in the moral educ It aims at the destr lapted to the pr listed upon the man igions Thin |