Good old Isaac Watts is known to the present generation chiefly as the inventor of English evangelical hymnody His Psalms and Hymns revolutionized an important department of Christian worship His Divine and Moral Songs for Children have not totally fallen into disuse But his Improvement of the Mind which years ago was carefully put into the hands of every young man who aspired to a liberal education is now scarcely known by name Yet the book had obtained this weighty endorsement by the great Dr Samuel Johnson Whoever has the care of instructing others may be charged with deficiency in his duty if this book is not recommended In this 1885 edition Dr Fellows has relieved the work of this extraneous matter and has increased its practical value by an excellent analysis as well as various typographical devices which bring into prominence theimportant parts Dr Fellows in his preface says that the original work was first published in 1727 but Allibone does not trace it back further than 1741 though Watts's Logic; or The Right Use of Reason in the Enuiry After Truth to which this work was originally a supplement was published in 1725 As recast and modernized in the present edition the work is well fitted for use by new generations of American youth.
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