A practical treatise on the management and diseases of children / by R.T. Evanson and H. Maunsell.

  • Evanson, Richard Tonson, 1799?-
Date:
1847
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    most serviceable^, in large cities^ for the poor^ are totally unfitted for the children of more opulent parents. With the latter, the system might be characterized, as Dr. Chalmers has done another artificial system, as a taking to pieces of the actual framework of society, and reconstructing it in a new way or on new principles—which is altogether fruitless of good, and often fruitful of sorest evil, both to the happiness and virtue of the commonwealth.''^ Since writing the above, we have had the pleasure of reading an interesting little treatise on Infant Education, published in Chambers' Educational Course, Edinburgh, 1836. At the same time that we are most gratified to find that the principles which we have attempted to lay down for early education, are those sanctioned by the experience of Mr. Wilderspin and others, still we cannot change our opinion with respect to the class of society for which the infant school is really adapted ; and we must be excused for preferring the family circle, as a place of education for the very young, in all cases in which it can be made use of without important sacrifices. We do not agree that the element of numbers, as Messrs. Chambers assert, is indispensable for exercising the social virtues of the child, particularly of the female child; but we acutely feel, that a tenderness, not less than parental, is required to keep unceasingly awake the sense of responsibility which ought to be felt by the infant's instructor : and we conceive that this responsibility is intended, by a wise Providence, not merely for the child's advantage, but also for a strong and wholesome check upon the morality of the parent, which it would not be beneficial to society to weaken by division, in any case admitting of its being left whole and undivided. [Note to 2d Edition.]
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