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i * A LONELY CHILDHOOD. 175
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Wan Causes T Of Of Unkindne Sympathy Ss ...
of endowed that e with arly so stage much of of their the being analy , tical and faculty are at as the to sam he able e tim to e
trace the causes and effects of such thoughts and feelings , and their influence on the formation of the characterwould
conto tribute the rather their limited experien stock ces ,-- of and such the life res - ults lore at deducible present , possessed therefrom ? , offer illustration of this
kin In this d of belief experience , it is , now and the proposed way in to which an it is thought it might
be thus made available . " Boys will be boys " which is a say the ing little true lad as trite , be for however
the stern dominant strong the in disci anim earl pline y al youth nature to , will , intended mostly , b in y his the case Creator may , burst to subjected throug be pre h - ,
all element attemp of ts activity at too ; ri and gid should it control is well be , for and manhood revel if in that its to appointed it be should
Wo be so ul , d for that assuredl it could y boys be affirmed with boys equal truth men are that girls men will . be girls ; but the abstract human nature is rather so much less
is strong opposed liabl ly developed e by to be so m in any feminine letel counteracting overborne humanit . influences y— Endowed or , that b , perhap it Nature is far s , more y
with but a small portion comp of y physical strength or courage , with & diffidence that shrinks from observation , a mindfulness of
appearances and proprieties , a distaste for contact with anything to readil that cultivate may y acted soil those upon or discompose by qualities undue — repression which a being belong ; thus and to formed the the mere species is but neglect too in
commonwill often suffice to force the peculiar characteristics a of bein sex into which , precocious ht not prominence to be so , and widel transform different the g from irl child the , very y
g oug in mere boy the at small oth the er -sized sam sex e copy is age s , carcel of into full the -grown ever anomalous seen feminity . The , to little qualities which woman a parallel usuall , " y a
_XDeculiar to maturity , even y when excellent in themselves , yet when they appear thus unseasonably , scarcel like berries be in blossom without _.,
time , t in and the a character feartoo often of a child well , -founded can that y as seen all our vices regre are virtues , overblown , they will corrupt , into rottenness , when
they should be ripening , into perfect fruit , and eventually become _defects rather than excellencies .
according One great to means due season of regulating is the associating the development with oth of ers character of equal
years , for and the associates approbation and that a is child most can desired only is gain always the that good of
peers opinion of other children , by the display of child-like qualities , of such common excellences as they can understand and
appreciate . And considering that it is not only thus a most effectual
I * A Lonely Childhood. 175
i * A LONELY CHILDHOOD . 175
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/31/
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