Show ifor foy for the deseret news intellectual development OF dlan hian BY alexander OTT As soon as the mind realizes rea lizea its identity that is to say its being a connecting link in the grand chain of beings it has torn aside the veil of mental darku ss it is aware of its existence and takes consequently immediate cognizance of 0 the endelos variety of sensations which are being experienced by every one in this life how every bound sound and I 1 bight sight strike then upon the soul boul and what heterogeneous feelings wishes intentions intentional sl I 1 ho hopes es and fears are then entering the mindl I 1 fyhen when we thus thua realize physically and mentally the external world we have acquired then the principle of perc perception option under the judicious guidance of competent persons our attention will be directed to a perfect berfect and harmonious development of oe all le the sensorial I 1 faculties by requesting reou estin us to observe and scrutinize everything around us till we famil clarize ourselves with the true nature of the different external objects object a their legitimate relationship and the conclusions arising out of them I 1 tho the child finding himself a stranger to a great many things likes to inquire to understand to shape objects according to his bis own fancy and then to nae rak memorize hence we see bee gene generally raly the faculties of imagination memory and inquisitiveness inquisitive ness nesa or curiosity strongly developed in the youthful ful fui mind I 1 mention hei hel here e parenthetically that curiosity and inqui are synon mes that ai to say words which have havi e ii t exactly the same but a similar meaning curiosity refers to all objects wh wb ch are capable of qualifying inclination inclinations taste or riess ness to such things only as satisfy the understanding I 1 how often do we not see little ones bu ily I 1 engaged in riding on a stick fancying them selves mounted on a nobe noble fi a ry steed or while abue putting a number of oe leaden soldiers in batt e array anay believing levin ievin themselves at the head of a real army shortly after the coronation ot of napoleon I 1 a number ot of boys boya and girls the children ott oti staff officers had been invited to spend christ mab mas D daiy diy ly at the palace of the Tuil tuileries eries erles jose phine phi with her usual amiable disposition had given the little rogues three apartment apartments sto to play in in the absence of the em I 1 this interesting group of children divided themselves in two armies one operating against the other antl and as the girls refused to volunteer they were enrolled by force in the juvenile regiments finally a battle ensued in which with the exception of a few slight bruises and a i great deal of noise no harm barm was done the enemy having surrendered was imprisoned in an adjoining room napoleon who was busily writing wilting in his cabinet on hearing the nese desired josephine to go and see what was going on the emp ress appearing in the midst of the children asked for the cause of the uproar when a little boy of nine years or of age dressed up as a general general approached josephine and making a military sanitation salutation sandwith baid said with a most serious face your majesty arter after a hard bard fought batie we have bave cap ca purel urel the whole army of the eaf enemy my and locked them up in vonder tonder room napoleon on being in informed formed of what whal hd had b happened app ened laughed and bad the chiw chil children march darch through bis his cabinet past him I 1 ilare herr in the sods bons of ber Ser berthier thier duroe and other bisti distinguished anguished ngui ngul shed officers of the first empire we biad bind imagination so powerfully developer ve loped that thal overcoming all restraint and shyness ehy nesa they carried on their operations with all the spirit and energy or true sola soldiers lers fers the toe education of the child begins thus with the exercise of the mental faculties in the order which nature mature teaches that ia to say the he development of the intellect as ag of every hing thing else in the universe is gradual and correct providing the false systems of man do not thwart its efforts being principally su surrounded with objects of sense the mind is consequently consequent I ly kept in a great degree under the liti influence luence of external tr concrete things and the childs judgment is only so BO far taxed as it refers to objects which strike his hig fancy As an intimate relationship exists between body alid arld spirit the least disturbance of the one Is felt by the other and so eo vice arsa cerra v zsa the brain with its peculiar mechanism ct cf nerves of 0 a very subtle and sensitive nature has generally been considered the medium by which the mind or intellect performs its wonderful functions the tle large brain or cef caf lebrum ebrum Is Is supposed ased to be the seat teat of c the faculties of thinking g memory ad ald the will while the animal or lower propensities are believed to be located in the little brain or cerebellum that talent genius and disposition are to a great extent depending upon the size and nature of the brain is a fact proven by a variety of interesting experiments which were made by lavater gall and others hence we find in childhood for instance on nn account of the development non of the cerebral lobes the intellect feeble and ind torpid but in the same ratio as the physical development of the brain takes pace the mind comes to life activity and vigor consequently Consequent lys the intel improvement of a child awaking as it were from a torpor ja is slow at first add and rodj nany many parents act unwisely in sending their little lttie ones boys and girls who BOMe some sometimes tiMeS are ot at a very vert delicate dedicate delu deli tale cale at loo koo early an age to school the sensitive nerves not being fully developed and the brain itself j being quite soft these organs are often mater j aily ally injured by study hence the highest and most important functions in the animal system are thus sometimes entirely destroyed and IdIo mediocrity of tas tal talent tarent vent lent with not the last trace of productiveness or genius I 1 are the painful results I 1 have seen persons of twenty and thirty years of oe age who were perfect children in intellect and except the performance ot or some physical labor entirely unfit to learn even to read and write beim belm being a stranger to the external world and the many interesting phenomena occurring in the same the child prompted by his bis innate curiosity or InquisitIve inquisitiveness cess will often ask questions about rain lightning thunder the the beauties of flora etc what re remorse a parent must then hape have when he be finds himself incompetent to satisfy the he eager curiosity of his hib offspring and thus leave eave cave a blank in the youthful mindl mindi will not i 1 buch such a person be obliged to bay say to himself himsel fp I 1 how can I 1 efface from the record of heaven the be neglect of cf my intellect if I 1 only had bad saved one hour a day and had bad devoted it to improvement I 1 might have become wise and arld useful in the cour coure e of time I 1 could have haie provided the luxury of intelligence to my nind mind add and brightened up and strengthened perishing now with rust I 1 yeb yes kind reader the mental development Is 9 much asb abb bed bea 1 by the instructions of judi i cious parents because a child chia is a so BO t that he is not satisfied till hib bib gues ques 1 eions are correctly answered to deceive a li 11 tle tie ene one one by making an incorrect reply is ia very injurious as the childs memory retains b a finst first fir fit at instructions as lasting ones and when even in old age he will boyf lly ily remember the lessons he be received from his parents the peculiar surroundings and associations have likewise a great greal influence upon the mental and moral development of a child professor dr kant one of germanys germanas Germ anys brightest literary stars remarks in one of his works on antrop I 1 for the development of talent and genius f I 1 know no better sphere than that of a healthy industrious clean moral and god tearing family the author of these words belne beine himself a instance of genius being hidden n poverty says athe the worda words uttered by my kind mother I 1 treasure up like costly lewel jewels 8 and oft often ento enlo do I 1 remember with tears in lil my eyes the adice riven ilven by her J memory nemory bearg very retentive erroneous ideas are only with difficulty erased from the youthful mind A child undergoing a cour course courle ae of studies ought above all things to understand well the principles of the same and if well digested commit them to that lower function so that always the brightening up and strengthening of the think ng po powers ers is well attended to memory the lowest faculty of the mind is as it were the reservoir of keeping things and events of the external and abstract wrid world it is as 09 remarked above very retentive especially specially in childhood on account of its being yet quite free from impressions pres and thus a comparative blank memory may be compared to a book hook look of many pages on which you begin to write till til all its leaves are full just as eil well ell connected words form sentences in an arti artl article articie cledo do ide ideas asim impressions pres and ard scenes forma form a legitimate link in that endless series of pictures representing enting the great drama of life in fact memory is a mental storehouse where our experience is garnered tip whether we know it or not nor for sometimes things which seemed to have been entirely erased from the tablets of 0 the mind were by recollecting perhaps a trifling circumstance and thus dle dla coveting the connecting mik mid in me morys chain drought brought to remembrance memory memory like every other faculty la is elastic I 1 I 1 it can car shrink within itself either by neglect sickness or old age and expand by proper cultivation cult to a most extraordinary degree Xa lavater vater and gall are both bolh distinguished by their pro tonni of phy aby and other huo they lived towards to tha the cadot md of thuu thu 18 it century in germany Germ any aay |