Tendency of Misdirected Education and the Unbalanced Mind to Produce Insanity

Almost from the "beginning the risen generations have done what their intelligence, their means, and their conscience allowed them, to aid in the development and training of those who were to come after them, and to lead children and youth through their narrow paths to the highway of manhood. In the way that seemed to them best they have endeavoured to show what should be done with the untaught human mind, as it comes originally from the Creator,?the raw material of thought and intelligence, as it is delivered by Nature into the hands of its rightful possessor or his friends,?and how this should he wrought, shaped and furnished with knowledge of facts and principles, and fitted to bear the responsibilities of mature life. Many have given to their thoughts on this subject a visible form, and sent forth to the broad world