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of reading , and wrote down all his lessons in them , and anything which interested his head or heart . When he first came under the care of S ., he was extremely n ervous , but afterwards he got in some measure over it ; partly because his health improved , and partly because he struggled so
much against it . He was one day overheard , as he stood on the brink of a low sand bank , saying to himself , ' Now I must , must , MUST do it ! ' After trying ineffectually to gain courage to take the leap , off he went at last , and practised again and again , until it was no longer difficult to him . He exercised the same strength of mind and purpose about climbing ; he shook like an aspen when he first climbed , but by dint of perseverance succeeded in
gaining more nerve . It would not be doing justice to our hero not to mention , perhaps , the most remarkable trait in his character , and that which more than anything else lifted him out of the state of confusion and helplessness , in which he has been described to have been at first . This was his extraordinary affection for S .
In so young a chud , it was very remarkable , tiverything beautiful , which he found , was given to her ; if any one spoke slightingly of her , he was sure to hear and to resent it ; if he caressed any one besides her , he was sure to go to her instantly , and give her double the caresses he had bestowed on the other person . He was so jealously sensitive about her feelings , that he divined what
they were towards others , and could measure them pretty nearly as exactly as she could herself . The instant question upon the mention of a new name was , ' Do you like that person V If she had been absent from home , upon her return he would stand beside her , speaking only by happy looks ; and whereas the other children would keep on saying , ' When will S . come ? when will S . come ? " he would say nothing : he would have learned the
exact minute when she might be expected , and would not give himself the pain of being told again that she could not arrive before that minute . But the greatest proof of his affection was in the way in which he commanded himself , in order to become
what he knew she esteemed . Never would he have got over his nervousness as he did ; never would he have exerted the mental energy he did , but under the strong stimulus of winning or losing her sympathy . Oh , there is nothing like affection on God ' s earth ! it alone of terrestrial things is eternal and omnipotent ; by its blessed magic guilt fades * like the baseless fabric of a vision , ' sorrow is transformed into joy , weakness into strength , earth into heaven .
Patriot , philanthropist , philosopher , reformer , parent , sacred band who war with evil and ignorance , despair not : if you love the object of your struggles , they shall prevail . Not in vain did tiie tear of sorrow and of love fall from the eyes of Christ at the tomb of Lazarus : nor in vain over suffering humanity did he
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and Experiment * in Education . 867
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 867, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/49/
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