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180 A LONELY CHILDHOOD.
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Mothers of Britainare there not some among * you who own ? treasures such , a lonel for whose child , l own , ife you it perh would aps were as amongst it needful your give dearest your
own ? Y , etthis very life you may , he making miserable , ; not only destroy , ing that present it to happiness hut which affect the i Creator ts so
fully intended and formed enjoy , ing permai ts t loss disposition while and leave entire it future thus to welfare he preyed ; nay , upon even risking hy its
loneliness understands , . It them may you not itself tell and you of mi communicativeness ts sufferings , it scarcel is y a
s sam ymp le tom of of them the comp heen lain , t , a fore part of the disease one ; hut has a
gone p through them and in whose memory they are burnt in for situa ever te as ; one she once whose was hear and t yearns would fai over n save those them who if are possible now
from the pangs so vividl , y remembered , because so keenly felL Watch for yourselves the effect of t isolation t ; see how , even with in *
ano a li t tt le infan it will t be who apparent for the in firs the impossibility ime is in company to understand that it , must share its playthings or divide the attention of
never qual whi and ch ities envy had it , has t And and he been oppor jealousy hitherto tuni month ty break to the and learn forth sole a object t t once prac ; th , t ise at because t it selfishness is opposi left it has by te ,
itselfsuch . ill effec every ts will strengthen every and year others appear . Do p owers t leave , of it good then undevel with infallibl all oped tha do t . Do social mak not i , h rob alf it it your s na that ture child _childhood , half of its its
alone childhood . The , as wild you beasts y that dwell apart ng pass in lonely caves donot bring- into the _^ world a sing t le cub alone lion ; for their the earl kind
days Creat shal or has l hav provided e coeval that playma even tes . It bear is the and gregarious animals y that mostlbring forth their singlfor their instinct
l leading ambor , them the y to foal congregate can readil in y flock youn find s g other and herd y calves , s , the or calf lamb , or s , the or
fo alo als ne , to b join ecaus its e gambol the fulfilmen s and to t of shar the e its sports uiremen , . Shall ts of man his q
na shal ture l , , gregar use h ious is free too , wil and dealt only with to pu b t y h P rovidence offspring accord in a i w ors gly _,, animals to whose
welfare position it in is this of far respect less than importance , those ? lower Surely not , t whenever it
cultivate the child-nature the power is ri of ghtl sympathizing y understood with , and childhood while ma , tli ur . 9 lig ht t directtht be mad
ava of i all labl the eshould experience be broug , dire ht c to or bear i _n upon , the acan study of the
_sulbject . , Sola .
180 A Lonely Childhood.
180 A LONELY CHILDHOOD .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/36/
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