The education of the feelings.

  • Charles Bray
Date:
1860
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Credit: The education of the feelings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. THE EDUCATION OF EACH FEELING CONSIDERED SEPARATELY. THE SELF-PROTECTING FEELINGS. APPETITE. Appetite appears to belong more properly to physical than to moral education, but it bears too strongly upon the latter, both in its use and abuse, to be omitted mention here. The pleasures of taste are amongst the first sensations that a child experiences ; they assist materially in forming the bond which unites it to its natural guardian and instructor; and from childhood to age, by their direct and reflected influence, add largely to the stock of human enjoyments. Let it not therefore be expected that children can be made to despise such pleasures ; they cannot, and they will not. Let us strive rather to give them a healthy direction. The body must be fed and its waste replaced and repaired or the mind cannot maintain its vigour; and we have undoubted evidence that the intention of Nature with regard to man is that the lower propensities shall give impulse and strength to the higher. Indulgence of them beyond this point she does not fail to punish. Let then attention to this rule be a point of conscience with children. Eating is of the first importance, and so is the management and direction of the appetite, both as regards quantity and quality. As to quantity, children should be early
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