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    The views entertained by Dr . Biber on the subject of reward and punishment will , doubtless , meet with much opposition , carefully as he has endeavoured to guard them by the full admission of the practical difficulties to be encountered b y the parent or teacher who endeavours to put them in execution . It must be admitted , that nothing can appear more visionary , at first sight , than the idea of dispensing with positive punishment , whatever may be thought on the far less doubtful and difficult subject of reward ; but yet ,

    the more we reflect on the general principles which should govern Christian education , and compare them with those which appear to govern the conduct of most educators , the more deeply we shall be convinced that , if Christianity itself be no merely beautiful theory , but a system capable of practical application , we must make , not steps only , but strides towards the

    path marked out by Pestalozzi and his followers , in all that respects our moral discipline , when attempting to approach a more Christian system . If to have respect , at every stage of the progress , to the formation of the Christian character , be visionary , then , indeed , are these views most visionary . But , let it be remembered , that a just confidence in their rectitude and

    correspondence with the gospel , is a very different thing from confidence in the present fitness of the agents that are to exhibit their efficacy . We may not be more fully convinced that there are very few schools conducted in such a manner as shall produce the result we wish , than that there are very few teachers capable , with their present habits and feelings , of making them

    better ; but does this , in the least , affect the general question ? Surely not . The thing to be deprecated is supineness and contentment with the pfeseht state of education . The evil is in allowing the enemies of education to triumph at every instance of juvenile depravity , at the manifest inefficiency ; of what has been done ; and of wasting time in defending imperfection , instead of labouring to make the remedy more applicable to the disease .

    " It is astonishing indeed , " says Dr . Biber , "that during so tyng a fl erjqjl of time as that which has elapsed mc $ the * appearance of JesusChriatj aniji the introduction of his religion into aty civifc ^ d , states ,, man should , aotSave come to a clearer insight into the nature of h } q dispensation . So % tftflm acting up to the principles there recommended , we see , Wj ^ e ^ giite ^ , every day a continuance of that system of retaliation which Jesus Christ himself decidedly rejecte < fc < m schools aw *> ifc thife reBpetet fcotlriw ( tatp ^ py or faint imitation of society at togeioifolia ?< tata € ip that dn < the dm jT ^ afafeiifnt it ? f ^ fwi ^ rfp *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 819, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/19/