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    The mother was again restored to her child , —her child , but oh ! how altered ! Scarcely was it possible to trace in him the pure and heart-gladdening being she had once known . The following

    extracts from her journal will give some idea of her operations and remarks upon him and other children . They are loose fragments , and claim attention and derive value chiefly on account of the bare , simple facts which they bring to light . It is some such data as these that the moral philosopher and the educator want . What would not either of them give for the true history of one human mind from birth to death ! Rousseau has attempted to give one of a portion of his life , and his revelations are highly interesting ; but it were greatly to be wished that many and variously-constituted persons would attempt the same good work for the world , and perform it more perfectly than he has done .

    Blessed may that hand be ( if such should ever exist ) that , tearing down the veils which society hangs before the emotions of the heart , and those yet more impenetrable veils with which vanity shrouds our baser feelings from our own perception , shall expose all the heights and depths , the beauty and the misery of his own nature !

    But however difficult it may be to arrive at the arcana of our human souls , there is good hope of our getting glimpses of truth by studying children , —beings not wholly sophisticated ; and great joy is there in communication with those from whom occasionally burst forth such c Glorious gleams of heavenly light , And gentle ardours from above /

    as are sufficient to convince people whose intercourse with the ' worky-day world / might lead them to a belief , contrary to the fact , that ' man is made much lower than the angels / Extracts from the Mother ' s Journal . May 18 . —It is the common complaint of those who would reform abuses that innovation is productive of evil , and the timid

    and idle prefer the evils of abuse to those of innovation . How * ever , it can never be , either as regards society or the individual , that supine inaction is right . The sincerely and intelligently desirous for reform may make mistakes as to the way in much they strive to attain it . and they may produce harm instead of grood ;

    but let us hope , that to intelligence , and benevolence , and ener gy , the means to the true end , —happiness , —will not for ever remain obscure . Without this hope , I might ireU be dismayed a the mass of evil which opposes itself to my efforts ; and before ' can begin again to weave the bright tissue of my child ' s Kfe a

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    MEMORANDA OF OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS IN EDUCATION . No . 2 .

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    Memoranda of Obtervations , fyc . § 11

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 551, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/21/