Show THE TRAINING OF CHILDR CHILDREN EN I T t John Stuart Mill has bee been famous for or ha half a 1 tur as a political economist an c editor antI and a clear brained man of affairs and withal a just man a arf s Go God gave ave him to o see ee t the e ri right But Dat the seve severe e order of his mind is made clear his rigid IS by b- writings and one reading much that he has writ writ- 1 ii must have felt a kind of sympathy if not pit pity r 91 those under his immediate care and control Hence Tence there is no surprise in reading how he schooled his eld eldest st son as pictured in He lie liea pis s a precocious child and instead of Measuring tring hT 1 r right and permitting him to develop physical physical- I 1 at he mi might ht later later- support his brain this Q er ir r says II At At 3 years ears of age he was wis was made to iri I the e study of Greek His earliest n t of poring over lists of Greek words ops op op- s which his father had written out the EnI En- En I an 3 s. Before he was vas 8 S years old he JJ d r I. a H r i ph sr dialogue dialog oJ J Pl 1 Wj 0 J and selections selection's from h a a number of less known au au- thors In addition his father made him delve in some of the heaviest of histories composed in the English lan language ponderous language ponderous rolls tomes like Gibbon Hume and Burnet while he was also plunged ed into Millers Miller's work on the principles of English government government government gov gov- into s 's II Ecclesiastical II History is to l' l and the tho drear dreary records of Quakerism At the ago age of 8 S he lie was made to tako take up Latin geometry and algebra When hen he went out of doors it was nearly always alwa with his father Instead of romping as children do and rolling in the grass and chasing butterflies he walked soberly by his fathers father's side reading from froni little slips of paperS paper t e abstracts that he lie had made matte of all his various studies There is more of i it but the time foregoing is enough to show how terrible a thin thing it is to be e a great greatman's greatman's mans man's son It was a ease case where the time stale state should havo have interposed interpose and taken the child hild from froni its father and and supplies another proof that there are arc m many n good and great men who never neer should be permitted to be fathers It It- It would be be better ter to let lot a boy bor grow up wild than to pass such sueh a childhood for what good gOOt can canan an any man be if all the recollections of his childhood are arc a torture T TIt It is another proof that parents are arc often the poorest judges in the world of what is best for their own children en |