over-impulsive and the over-obstructed type, 179 -The perfect type, 180-The balky will, 181- What character building consists in, 184-Right action depends on right apperception of the case, 185-Effort of will is effort of attention: the drunkard's dilemma, 187-Vital importance of voluntary attention, 189-Its amount may be in- determinate, 191-Affirmation of free-will, 192 — PAGE IN the general activity and uprising of ideal interests which every one with an eye for fact can discern all about us in American life, there is perhaps no more promising feature than the fermentation which for a dozen years or more has been going on among the teachers. In whatever sphere of education their functions may lie, there is to be seen among them a really inspiring amount of searching of the heart about the highest concerns of their profession.The renovation of nations begins always at the top, among the reflective members of the State, and spreads slowly outward and downward. The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands. The earnestness which they at present show in striving to enlighten and strengthen themselves is an index of the nation's probabilities of advance in all ideal directions. The outward organization of education which we have in our United States is per |