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They never thought of eating , it was daily as unthought of , and purely mechanical an operation , as breathing .
To-day Mrs . was in the utmost distress , because her chil dren had been heard using indelicate words . If there is one thing in which grown up people are unjust towards children , it is in the wrath and horror with which they visit them when they use ' bad words . * They totally forget that these are mere words with children ; words divested of the associations which make them
bad . The whole extent of the wrong in children is disobedience in using words which they are desired not to utter , added to an indefinite idea which they have , of something evil meant by the words ; just as many women blush at things of which all they know is that others have indecent associations of ideas with them .
' Bad words ! ' what are they ? Words which express bad things , [ presume . And what are bad things ? I should say , things out of proportion , and that answer will serve excellently well to explain the somewhat puzzling nature of impurity and its remedy . Indecency 13 a one-sided view , and that a low view . To do away with it you must raise the mind up to take a more ^ extended view . All the arrangements of Providence are beautiful . Yet
there are some of them which should be kept sedulously from the child ' s consideration , simply because their beauty lies not in what is visible and comprehensible by him , but in their harmony with a portion of the spiritual , which is to the child incomprehensible . Yes—I am sure of it—indecency is merely ignorance—absence of spiritual truth . Nothing natural is in itself indecent . ' To the pure all things are pure . ' ' Blessed are the pure in heart , for they shall see God . '
Some things make an indelible impression on children . —¦—lately told me , that when she was a child , she was in the habit of giving her father a kiss at night , until once he told her that it ^ as ver y troublesome of her to do so . Naturally affectionate , this wounded and shocked her excessively , and she has never forgotten the feeling of that moment , By long years of similar coldness of feeling and of manner towards her , she has been chilled mto indifference , reserve , and distrust of mankind . The
contrary to the above is the case of , who , when seven years old , was travelling in a stage coach with her father . A lady , who did not perceive that her father was holding her , cautioned her against leaning against the coach door , so strongly , that the child shrunk tack . Her father said , in an accent which has never been forgotten , « Do you distrust this arm V
In our systems of education the grand fault is , such impatience t ° arrive at results , that we stick at nothing in order to obtain
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and Experiments in Education . 689
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 689, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/13/
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