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Latin authors which told the tale , and with a little help he laboured through it gladly . Many parts of ' Cornelius Nepos' he read with the same interest and pleasure , and Caesar ' s account of Britain too was a great pleasure to him . Another extract from S / s journal will show her mode of dealing with his difficult mind . A . read to-day :
* Ah , spare yon emmet , rich in hoarded grain : He lives with pleasure , and he dies with pain . * First of all , I told him that an emmet was an insect . Then I asked—' What is rich ? A . < The emmet . ' S . < What in ? (After a long pause , he answers , — ' Grain . ' Then I explained hoarded , ' which led me into an account of the habits of the
emmet , which interested him . By this time he had quite forgotten that c spare / here means < don't kill / After he had thought , or rather sat , for a long time , I said , — The lady , when she sa ys " spare , " tells the little boy not to do something : guess what / A . Not to tease it , not to tread on it , not to hurt it ,
not to push it , not to kill it / S . ' What did she say to him ?' A . < Not to kill him / S . < Tell me not to kill him / A ., after some time , — < Don ' t kill him / S . ' Now let us have the line again / A . Don't kill you / S . < What do you mean ? ' A . ' I dun know / S . < That . Now the line . ' A . < Don ' t kill that
emmet , rich in heaped up grain / S . * Why should he not kill the emmet ? ' A . then paused ; and S . foolishly referred him , forsooth , to the book , instead of to his own heart . After a long time , it struck him that the act of death would be painful ; and then S . asked him for a second reason . He could not find it . S .
then said , — ' Suppose a bird fell at your feet , dreadfully wounded , should you kill it at once , or let it live hours in pain ? ' He did not know . S . put the case to himself ; but he would prefer being let to live , he said . S . then rejoined , — ' However , friends of mine have been in such pain , that they have prayed that God would let them die . Besides , I have known people , who were )
not so very much pained , who yet have been thankful to die / A . opened eyes of astonishment , and said , — Did they ? Why V & . * Because they knew they should be happier after they were dead / All this helped not on ; so S . said , — ' Who ought to be pleased , the little boy or the emmet ? Suppose the little boy is yourself . ' The clear and instant answer was , — The emmet / « S . « And which would he like best , to live or to die ? ' A . * To live . ' S . ' Why ? ' A . * Because then he could make himself happy / S . * How ? ' A : ( He could see his friends ; he could eat ; he could pile up / S . ' Very well . Now tell me the two reasons why we should not kill insects / A . ' Because killing hurts them ; and because they like to live , because they arc happy / £ >\ < Now it seems to me that there is a third reason ,
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and Experiments in Education . 865
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 865, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/47/
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