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conclusions , and hoping that she may succeed in stimulating the dor mant intellects which are too often the accompaniments of charitable feelings , we must yet regret the absence of a . greater precision of style and closeness of logic than we find in this volume . Such qualities are essential to the satisfactory discussion of its subjects . 'With a more distinct and rigorous mode of reasoning , we should have given that full approval to this volume which we now render to the author ' s just principles and generous sentiments .
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Geography in Verse , for the Use of Young Children . By S . J . Williams . A collection of infant school chants , which may very well aid the retention of the simpler facts of geography by young children , provided they have been made to understand those facts by other means . The verses are adapted for suggestion rather than information . Geographical names are cleverly made to chime in , in the several kinds of singsong measure which have been adopted . What was the writer thinking of , at p . 23 , in the remark on Judea ?
' Now subject to the unchristian Turks Their land the Jewish people see . ' The matter would scarcely be mended to the Jew were his land subjected to Christian Turks . We should take care not to give a twist to children ' s conceptions by our own want of distinctness . A longtime is often required for correction , and occasionally much mischief done . In the poem on the Sea , the author follows the common mode of speaking of Providence ; but is not the use of such language one reason why religion becomes so much an affair of words ?
* God who is ruling the storm is there He heareth the waters roar ; And the sailors are safe in his kindly care . As wo in our homes on shore . ' If we regard only Divine Power , that power to which the very laws of nature are subordinate , then this assertion is true ; but then it is also true that there is no such thing as clanger in any circumstances ; we may
cling to the mouth of the cannon about to be fired , play with the adder , plunge into the crater of a volcano . Is this the lesson to be taught to children ? If not , if it be only meant that Providence protects the sailor by the operation of those laws which have guided the builder in the construction of the ship , and the crew in its navigation , then the sentiment is not true . There is more insecurity on hoard ship in a storm than in 4 our homes on shore . ' It is God's will that there should be : he has
decreed the danger by making land more stable than ocean , and the hurricane more destructive of human life on the one element than on the other . Why deceive children about thin ? or , which is a yet worse deception , tell them , by implication , that if they trust in Providence the laws of nature may peradventure be suspended on their behalf ? We are not accusing the author now before us of deception , nor any other teachers , intentionally . But such Is the tendency of much that if ^ uglit
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 435, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/71/
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