The mother's monitor, or nursery errors / [James Quilter Rumball].

  • Rumball, James Quilter, 1795-1872
Date:
1829
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Credit: The mother's monitor, or nursery errors / [James Quilter Rumball]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    into which mankind is divided; and Dr. Pritchard, in his Physical History of Man, supposes that the influence of climate, and other local agencies, are more par- ticularly felt by the unborn babe, and, therefore, that peculiar characters, whe- ther of form, colour, or temperament, are for the most part connate, that is, born with the individual; and Spurzheim declares innateness, or the propagation of peculiarities from parents to children, ■'to be by far the most powerful of all operative causes, whether for good or for evil. The vulgar notion, then, of marks and moles, of the object by which a mother has been alarmed, or the delicacy for which she may have vainly longed, be- coming imprinted on her child, rests
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