Chapter V.
- Working men
- School systems
- Braggadocio
- School teachers
- Three months' term, and nine months' vacation
- Evening schools
- Dancing schools
- O. Pratt and Brigham Young
- H. C. Kimball
- Pratt's mathematical class
- Grammar schools
- Cultivated female society
- Home education
- Female lions
- Literary institutions
- Novel reading
- Deseret alphabet
- Newspapers
- Book of Mormon
- Doctrines and covenants
- New translation of Bible
- Book of Abraham
- Key to Apocalypse
- Prophecy of Enoch
- Gospel of Adam
- Lex ora, v. lex scripta
- Controversial works.
The moral and mental health of a community can safely be predicated from their system of education. The physical system is relaxed or invigorated according to the nature of the food we eat, and so, also, the mental system relies on its aliments for present power and future hope. On the education of the boys of to-day depends the nature of the men of to-morrow. Thinking men discover principles of nature, working men apply them to the purposes of art. Brigham Young keeps the people of Salt Lake, as before remarked, constantly at work. He aims at making them working men and women, and has succeeded. In the attention bestowed on physical education, the mental and moral training is neglected. It is true that outside of Utah they boast, and in Utah they talk, of the school systems. Orson Pratt, in a sermon delivered at
