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    deep study to cultivate the mind ; whereas , for the body , we shall do well if we only heedfully spy into nature ' s wants , and never presume to despise the indications she holds out for our guidance . Never let us despise the physical , because whatever God has arranged is full of beauty and goodness ; and because the spiritual does depend upon the physical . Let us not expect in the child

    the virtues , i . e ., the pleasures of the man ; each age has its own peculiar mode of existence and of happiness ; let us not despise those of any age ; the caterpillar that spends its life in eating , and the butterfly that on . the rose ' s breast suns its fluttering wings for a summer day and dies , —which of these is the best ? Let him only answer who , surveying all creation , can see each being ' s influence upon the whole creation .

    Dec . 18 . —Mrs . , who is come to stay with me for a week , said to me to-day , ' What have you done to B . ? He is not like the same creature . What have you done to him ? Nothing , ' I answered . ' No , no / replied she , ' that answer will not do . I am really interested in learning how in seven months so great a

    change can have been wrought . The expression of his face is more complacent and less animal , and he appears to have fcrg"otten his peevishness , disobedience , and cunning . ' ' Well , * I rejoined , * certainly it is not true to say that I have done nothing but it is perfectly true to say that I cannot describe to you the process by which any particular fault has been conquered . It is

    a rule very strictly observed by me , not to try to crush manifestations of feelings , but to be content to let those feelings right themselves ; and I trust for this to the general influence of the whole of my system . I am never better pleased than when a fault disappears I know not how . I then hope that it has gone naturally , and that some good has taken its place in the heart instead of some worse evil , as is but too frequently the case after our

    active corrections , as we term them . ' ' Do you really mean now to say , ' interrupted Mrs . , * that you have never prevented B . from crying in that violently-impatient manner which he used to Jo ? ' « Certainly , ' said I ; 'I never took the slightest notice of his screams . It' I did not mean him to have what he was crying W , I let him cry on , without moving a muscle of my face even to show that I heard him ; if , on the other hand , 1 meant him to have what he was screaming for , I gave it to him , although he

    was cr ying . Had I acted differently he would have come to the false notion that crying is wrong , ( instead of which , it is the too impatient desire that causes the crying , which is wrong ,. ) and he would have come , at length , hypocritically to refrain from the Kamfestation of impatient desire , in order to arrive at its object . Of course , the only right thing to do was , tirst , to behave s ® towards him as to win back his affection to nae , that affection * hich in former days was the source of his confidence in warn , * hich confidence was in its turn the source of cheerful acqijiao

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    and Experiment * in Education . 553

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 553, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/23/