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    lie now enlftrgesf op the subject in various place * of -his thirtyseven Philosophical Letters / ' Spme x ) i his ideas are worthy a

    contemporary of Locke , and such as have given deserved popularity to rqo « - dern publications . He recomm ^ ndfi iC the greatest care imaginable in the education . of our

    children , who must in a little time after us come to govern the world /* i ^ a ^ " continually exercise them in some useful arts and sciences , " and that " this sort of learning ought to be insinuated ,

    even in their cradles 5 " that parents " ought not to shew or speak in the hearing of their children any thing where passion is expressed ; " that their * correction

    be dune by some silent , wise , solder methods , sometimes by fasting , standing silent alone , and the like \ observing that " such corructions will penetrate deeper into their souls , and make them more

    sensible than whipping and beatings which doth chiefly serve to advance the principle of bitterness , envy and self-ful power . ' * Yet ailTryon ' s notions of early discipline will not be equally acceptable to the young , nor indeed

    are they equally reasonable , Hg deems that * nothing promotes idleness and vanity more than children ' s playing promiscuously , one among another . " He ^ howe ver , recommends to keep children not too long at any sort of business or employment- ^ and as 4 t

    near as you can , " to make all their small affairs , ar * s , or other ttlings thiy learn delightful , " W $ * * i t \ & mentioned as a grand rpistftke in all parents and tutors to Itrt their children play , to refresh stud make themselves more a ^ jlq ansb lively , ' he recommemlti chat

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    they « be appointed several sort * of learning for the day , not ex * ceedmg one hour at a time for one sqiH of art . ' *

    I pa ^ s over rel oc nlly several subjects which might be interests ing . The only one I vo > n venture to add , is unhappily too seasonelde * Letter XV . is ^ entitled , ^ Of a Soldier ' s Life , shewing from what principle that bloody employment takes its birth , how contradictory it is to the divine law . and de *

    , structive to the unity and wel l * being of mankind , and that all other creatures hav ^ e an equal share in these calaa ^ itios . * ' It'i *

    addressed , " To the Honourabie Colonel Kent , " on an ocoadoni which th $ following introduc to ^ passages will best ex . pl $ , ift ; ^ - ^ Sfa : ^ I received from you the last cam- »

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    profession , occasioned as you 4 « mi qjare , by reading a book of ouv % entitled u The Way t& Heakb i & € . *>¦ I greatly congratulate the happy fortune of its falling into your hands , and am apt to . believe it was soms good providence that

    directed you to U > not imagining there could be any treatise of such a nature as that is t in so quarrelsome and conte ^ ou ^ a country . 1 confess it i $ a dis ^ course very unsi > itq . blo for a soU

    diei , unless he could wholly dispossess himself of the prtjudicu his ^ very profession sul > jec 16 * hiia to and bring a | i tiabiassied ^ nod impartial diappsiUQivto-the rea 4 i » g 6 fit . Tihe ^ Trealy of Pwe , " wefttioiicd- by 'JVyttt * , wi * st k % VM bmc

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/36/