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Education, in the proper meaning of the term, implies that system of training, whether public or otherwise, which elicits and improves the capabilities of human nature; which calls into exercise, and puts under proper discipline, the intellectual, moral, and animal faculties of man, preparing him for the effective and graceful accomplishment of the several duties, which, in the order of divine Providence, may be incumbent on him to perform. Any thing less than this, however brilliant in its nature or results, falls short of an adequate and finished education. The importance of a full development of the resources of human nature, and the subjection of those resources to the government of reason and revelation, though not sufficiently appreciated by any, is, in some degree, admitted by all. That moral culture, in the training of human beings, ought to be an object of primary and solicitous attention, is too plain to be denied. The adaptations and capacities of the youthful mind; its quick susceptibilities of moral and religious truth, and the highest interests of the social state, all declare, in language not to be misunderstood, the duty of parents in this respect. So clear is the voice of reason in regard to the improvement of the moral powers, that all nations have bowed to her decision. History presents on every page the solemn and admonitory fact, that a recklessness of moral culture is productive of the most unhappy results. Be the power and wealth of nations, or individuals, what they may, if they are destitute of moral principles, they will be fruitful sources of human wretchedness. To assist in providing the youthful mind with sound and salutary principles, and to induce in it habits of moral rectitude, we commenced and prosecuted the following work. Much as we value the acquirements of human learning, and ardently as we wish to contribute to our country's glory, by promoting the intellectual improvement of her children, we are infinitely more solicitous to assist in the diffusion of sound morals and evangelical piety. Nature, and the god of nature, have decreed that, in the want of these attainments, no one can be happy in the life which now is, or in that which is to come. With this view, we hope that no apology is requisite for offering to the public a new family and school book on moral philosophy. In the present work we have not attempted to build up our own reputation at the expense of our predecessors; but simply to supply a desideratum, which, as far as we know, has never been attempted before. To the plan of incorporating theology with ethics, we have no doubt objections will be raised; but believing that Christian principles are the only stimulus to moral action, and that the interests of truth should not be sacrificed to classification, we felt obliged to pursue the course we have taken. The work is divided into three books. The first treats of the nature of obligation, and the lights by which it is discovered. The second book treats of the adaptations and relations of human beings; because it is believed that, in every instance, obligations arise from this source. The third and last book treats of the duties we owe to God, to our fellow creatures, and to ourselves. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

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The Northwestern Shoshone knew as home the northern Great Salt Lake, Bear River, Cache, and Bear Lake valleys-northern Utah. Sagwitch was born at a time when his people traded with the mountain men. In the late 1850s, wagons brought Mormon farmers to settle in Cache Valley, the Northwestern Shoshone heartland. Emigrants and settlers reduced Shoshone access to traditional village sites and food resources. Relationships with the Mormons were mostly good but often strained, and the Shoshone treatment of migrants, who now traveled north and south as well as west and east through the area, was increasingly opportunistic. It only took a few violent incidents for a zealous army colonel to seek severe punishment of the Northwestern Shoshone on a winter morning in 1863. The Bear River Massacre was among the bloodiest engagements of America's Indian wars. Hundreds of Shoshone, including Sagwitch's wife and two sons, died; he was wounded but escaped. The band was shattered; other chiefs dead.The following years were very hard for the survivors. The federal government negotiated a treaty with them but failed to get Sagwitch's signature when, enroute to the sessions, he was arrested and then wounded by a white assassin. With the world around him changed, Sagwitch sought accommodation with the most immediate threat to his people's traditional way of survival-the Mormons occupying the Shoshone's valleys.This, then, is also the story of the conversion of Sagwitch and his band to the Mormon Church. Though not without problems, that conversion was long lasting and thorough. Sagwitch and other Shoshone would demonstrate in important ways their new religious devotion. With the assistance of Mormon leaders, they established the Washakie community in northern Utah. Though efforts to secure a land base had an uneven history, they partly succeeded, and the story of these Shoshone's attempts at rural farming diverged significantly from what happened on government reservations. When Sagwitch died, his death went almost unnoticed outside of Washakie, but his children and grandchildren continued to be important voices among a people who, after experiencing near annihilation, survived in the new world into which Sagwitch led them.

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"A journal of Mormon thought."

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Volume 3, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach BeecherIn her memoir, and 1870's revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt.Converting to the LDS Church, the Pratts moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, from where Brigham Young sent Addison on the first of the long missions to the Society Islands that would leave Louisa on her own. As a sole available parent,

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Composed over several decades, the essays here are remarkably fresh and relevant. They offer instruction for the student just beginning the study of folklore as well as repeated value for the many established scholars who continue to wrestle with issues that Wilson has addressed. As his work has long offered insight on critical mattersn--nationalism, genre, belief, the relationship of folklore to other disciplines in the humanities and arts, the currency of legend, the significance of humor as a cultural expression, and so forth--so his recent writing, in its reflexive approach to narrative and storytelling, illuminates today's paradigms. Its notable autobiographical dimension, long an element of Wilson's work, employs family and local lore to draw conclusions of more universal significance. Another way to think of it is that newer folklorists are catching up with Wilson and what he has been about for some time.As a body, Wilson's essays develop related topics and connected themes. This collection organizes them in three coherent parts. The first examines the importance of folklore. What it is and its value in various contexts. Part two, drawing especially on the experience of Finland, considers the role of folklore in national identity, including both how it helps define and sustain identity and the less savory ways it may be used for the sake of nationalistic ideology. Part three, based in large part on Wilson's extensive work in Mormon folklore, which is the most important in that area since that of Austin and Alta Fife, looks at religious cultural expressions and outsider perceptions of them and, again, at how identity is shaped, by religious belief, experience, and participation; by the stories about them; and by the many other expressive parts of life encountered daily in a culture. Each essay is introduced by a well-known folklorist who discusses the influence of Wilson's scholarship. These include Richard Bauman, Margaret Brady, Simon Bronner, Elliott Oring, Henry Glassie, David Hufford, Michael Owen Jones, and Beverly Stoeltje.In these essays William Wilson illuminates folklore theory and practice, romantic nationalism, religious folklore, personal narrative, and much else. Each essay is introduced by a notable fellow folklorist, among them Richard Bauman, Margaret K. Brady, Simon J. Bronner, Henry Glassie, David J. Hufford, Michael Owen Jones, Elliott Oring, Steve Siporin, David Stanley, Beverly Stoeltje, and Jacqueline S. Thursby.

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