TABLETS

CONTENTS.


BOOK I.--PRACTICAL.

I. THE GARDEN. PAGE.

1 Antiquity 5

2 Ornaments 11

3 Pleasures 14

4 Orchard 20

5 Sweet Herbs 25

6 Table Plants 28

7 Rations 36

8 Economies 41

9 Rural Culture 48


II. RECREATION.

1 The Fountains 59

2 The Cheap Physician 65


III. FELLOWSHIP.

1 Hospitality 69

2 Conversation 75


IV. FRIENDSHIP.

1 Persons 81

2 Woman 88

3 Family 92

4 Children 95


V. CULTURE.

1 Modern Teaching 103

2 Socratic Dialectic 108

3 Pythagorean Discipline 113

4 Mother Tongue 118


VI. BOOKS. 127


VII. COUNSELS.

1 Religious 139

2 Personal 145

3 Political 148

4 Soul's Errand 151


BOOK II.--SPECULATIVE.

I. INSTRUMENTALITIES.

1 Tendencies 159

2 Method 162

3 Man 166


II. MIND.

1 Ideas 173

2 The Gifts 179

3 Person 181

4 Choice 184


III. GENESIS.

1 Vestiges 189

2 Serpent Symbol 191

3 Embryons 193

4 Temperament 195


IV. METAMORPHOSES.

1 Sleep 201

2 Reminiscence 203

3 Immortality 205




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BOOK I

PRACTICAL

"Philosophy, the formatrix of judgment and manners, has the
privilege of having a hand in everything."--MONTAIGNE.