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    86 HEINR1CH PESTALOZZI.

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    At Lastafter Many Years' Difficult Searc...

    give a power without which man can never find his happiness in the vortex of life . "

    But it is a pity to abstraejpany more detached sentences out of this charming book" How Gertrude teaches her Children ;"

    , it is full of warm , simple , true feeling" , which no abstracts _,, no translations dan convey . He traces beautifully the relation

    between mother and child ; developes truly how in that relation lie the germs of most virtues ; that from the love of herwhom

    we see from our tenderest infancy , is derived the love of , Him whom we cannot see with our bodily eyes . I cannot refrain from

    giving a few more passages . " A mother ' s love quiets the first desires of the child and draws

    forth its love ; soon after , fear developes itself ; the mother ' s caress appeases the fear ; this act produces the union of love and

    confidence , and unfolds the first germs of gratitude . Nature is inflexible towards the raging child ; it beats wood and stone ; nature remains

    inflexible , and the child ceases to beat wood and stone . Now the mother is inflexible towards its passion ; it rages and screams , she

    remains inflexible ; it ceases , it gets accustomed to submit its will to hers—the first germs of obedience are unfolded . Obedience , love ,

    gratitude , and confidence united , awaken conscience ; the first slight shadow of the feelingthat it is not right to rage against the

    , loving mother ; the first shadow of the feeling that the mother is not in the world for it only ; that the world is not for it alone ; and

    then comes the second feeling , that it is not created for itself ; the first idea of duty and right is unfolding .

    " The germs of love , confidence , and gratitude soon spread . The child knows the step of the mother , it smiles at her shadow ; it

    loves whoever resembles her ; it smiles on every one ; it loves whom its mother loves ; thus brotherly love is developed .

    " I believe in my mother , her heart showed me God ; God is the God of motherHe is the God of my heartas He is the God of

    _v her heart my . Mother , , thou showedst me God in , thy commands , and I found Him in my obedience .

    " Mother , if I love thee , I love God , and my duty is my highest good . Motherif I forget theeI forget Godand the unhappy no

    , , , longer find rest in my arms , and I am no more a comfort to the suffering . Mother and obedience , God and Duty , are as one ; God ' s

    will , and the noblest and best that I can accomplish , is as one law to me ; then I do not live only for myself , I lose myself in the circle of

    my brethren , the children of my God , and thus I live no more to myselfI live to Himwho has taken me as in a mother ' s arm

    and has , raised me with , a father ' s hand above the anxieties of , mortal life to His love . "

    Many of the views expressed in this book have gradually spread , and although few know that Pestalozzi first opened the way for

    them , and although they are so simple that many , especially

    mothers , acquire them without any assistance , still it may be said

    86 Heinr1ch Pestalozzi.

    86 HEINR 1 CH PESTALOZZI .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/14/