Volume 1
Observations on the mortality and physical management of children / [John Roberton].
- John Roberton
- Date:
- 1827
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the mortality and physical management of children / [John Roberton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![system. Their naturally extreme sensibility, while it renders the hopes and consolations of a sound faith essential to their ordinary happiness, disposes them, when uninstructed, to adopt fan- ciful and unscriptural views, which either des- troy their own peace, or, when joined to an ardent, ambitious temper, originate the most lamentable fanaticism, or mischievous imposture. It is an invaluable remark of a foreign writer, that “the more feeble the body is, the greater influence it has on the mind; and the stronger it is, the more obedient it is to its [the mind’s] commands.” Here, on the one hand we have a powerful motive for invigorating the body, that it may readily obey. And on the other hand for regulating and fortify- ing the mind that, instead of being the slave of morbid fancies and feelings, it may possess efficient power to command. “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” is a general admonition of Divine Wisdom. The parent who is conscious of having transmitted to his children a predisposition to diseases which may be a stain on successive generations, and the cause of gloomy misery, or of appalling crimes ; and who disregards this admonition—who neg- lects any thing which prudence, example, system, enforced by authority can do to avert such con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33092837_0001_0316.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
