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below to keep guard over the departing glory of episcopacy ; as did the ' sweet little cherub smiling aloft' on the topmast ? Vain cafe , if poor Jack ' s life were not better worth preserving than that of old , selfish , grumbling beldame Mother Church . No , spirits are wiser ; and when they do rise from their graves it will be , like Ezekiel , to say to the land , < There is a conspiracy of her prophets ( priests ) in the midst thereof ; like a roaring lion , ravening their prey , they have devoured souls ; they have taken the treasure and precious things ? But what is it ? Proud , yet trembling in its impulsess like a huge swelling world of a drop of water . The sky is without a cloud—no glistening rain-drops to make marvels upon slanting roofs . What is it ? No glazed window to lighten with the moon ' s pure reflection . Nearer and nearer—brighter and brighter—how strange ! What is it ? I declare it is the moon shining on the bright tin tube of the vestry chimney ! S . Y .
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Although books for the instruction of children have greatl y improved of late years , it must be acknowledged that good books of this description are still rare ; and it becomes our duty to mention from time to time such works as fall under our notice which have pretensions to a rational character . It has only been discovered recently ( and is still but partially known ) that the familiar objects which surround a child may be
easily converted into useful and delightful materials of instruction . Formerly instruction was commenced with crabbed books , which were thrust into the infant ' s hands long before he could comprehend their use , and which thus unwittingly became instruments of torture ; instruments for the repression of real knowledge , and for deadening all delight in the attainment of knowledge . Would that we could say that such is not the case now . We trust , however , that the parents and instructors of young
children will every day have less excuse for continuing a practice which is as destructive to the children ' s intellects and happiness , as to their own comfort ; for we cannot admit that a mechanical and painful mode of instruction can add to the happiness of either parent or instructor . Several treatises have appeared within the last year or two , for the purpose of showing the rational teacher in what manner
valuable instruction may be extracted from ordinary familiar objects . The two most remarkable of these works are ; first , a cheap London reprint of an American work , entitled ' The Little Philosopher , for Schools and Fajnilies ; designed to teach cjuldren to think and to reason about common things ; and to illustrate , for parents and teachers , methods of instructing and interesting children . Bv Jacob Abbott , Principal of the Mount Vernou
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RATIONAL INSTRUCTION
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/59/
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