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The movable furniture is the study of the Cabinet-Maker, the Upholsterer, the Mattress Maker, the Carpet Weaver. The adornment of the ground of the house will demand a study of Gardening. This does not include Horticulture or any other botanical art, whose affiliations we shall find in due course. The house having been built and furnished, the problem will be how to live in it. This calls in the first place for the two extensive sciences of Househeating and Illumination to which in the near future, will be added that of House-refrigeration. But these sciences have nearer affinities than with the House-instinct. In the next place, life in a house demands the ancient science of Housekeeping with its numerous branches.

We come now to the Publicultural Sciences; and first to those which minister to the Morals-instinct. It can hardly be necessary to insist that Ethics is not such a science. The study of ethics may have the effect of making men more moral. That is a point upon which good writers on the subject have entertained contrary opinions. Some treatises on the subject have been