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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

CHAPTER II. The rise and progress of infant passion

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CHAPTER III. The passions of Infants as they grow into
real or artificial wants.
CHAPTER IV. The impression made on Infants by the
manners and words of their attendants or friends.
CHAPTER V. Danger of excess in the passions, which be-
ing then opposed, demand first the exercise of Parental
Judgment.....

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CHAPTER VI. Discrimination, secondly, required in the

Parent who begins the work of opposition to Infant Will 36

CHAPTER VII. Forbearance also requisite in the correc-
tion of Infancy; private feelings should have no sway over
the Parent who controuls a rebel Child....

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CHAPTER XIII. Accidents and reverses often found to cool
affections of Relatives in adolescence and maturity, even
when some care has been employed to excite, and main-
tain them during Childhood........

CHAPTER XIV. The attachments of Children will direct
their future taste...........

CHAPTER XV. Good-nature an essential in all characters:
none can be amiable without this quality
CHAPTER XVI. Infant prejudice and opinion often formed
without any reason. Humanity useless, if it be only passive 110
CHAPTER XVII. Kindness to brutes next in importance.
Domesticated animals demand our peculiar care .........
CHAPTER XVIII. Forbearance. Our nature being prone to
rebel, the will cannot too early be brought under sub-
jection.
CHAPTER XIX. When the Infant is able to distinguish one
object from another, he can also understand on being told
he is doing wrong..
CHAPTER XX. When submission has once been insisted
on, the Mother should persevere till she conquers.
CHAPTER XXI. Childhood the season of innocence, art-
lessness, and simplicity

CHAPTER XXII. A Child with affectation of manners has

ceased to possess the most engaging charm of his age 160

CHAPTER XXIII. Selfishness of Children the grand prevail-
ing fault in this Age....
CHAPTER XXIV. A modest diffidence always pleasing, and
the general accompaniment to merit.
ready to give assistance to Children,
not require it. The natural Powers should have oppor-
tunity for Exertion...

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Grown Persons too

even where they do

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CHAPTER XXV. Generosity a noble feature in young
minds, and one which marks exaltation of character
CHAPTER XXVI. Meanness of soul opposed to a generous
spirit

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EARLY EDUCATION.

PART I.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

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HE COMETH FORTH LIKE A FLOWER."

WHEN reason first begins to dawn in an infant, we notice the first shoots or seeds of passion; they are very weak, and we give to them the general name of emotions.

To every regular passion, there are three steps; and there are sometimes as many more from passion to excess. A cause arises and produces emotion; emotion continued, increases to affection; affection encouraged, swells into passion. So far we permit : the passions are given us by the Almighty to agitate the stream of life, which would otherwise stagnate; and to produce some strong current, into which we commit ourselves and our possessions; for one undeviating course must be equally ours if eminence be our wish, and one bright goal will be deep seated in our hearts, when virtue is our aim. The pursuit of knowledge is, in general, favourable to virtue. In

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