Excerpt from Lecture on the Necessity of the Study of Physiology: Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at Hartford, August 22, 1845 The going to school is so universal among chil dren every one goes so much, as a matter of course, as early as he can be taught to read, and as late as the convenience of the family can spare him from the more active employments of life, and this is done so much from habit, that one hardly stops to find reasons for so doing. And it would seem almost a work of supererogation to ask a child to tell, why or wherefore he thus buffeted with the winter's cold, or sweltered in the summer's heat, as he waded through the snows of January, or toiled beneath the burning sun of August, to the school-house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.