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Show V SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE VOLUME III. largely dependent upon education. At birth, the child may have inherited a much stronger tendency for evil than for good, and vice versa, but by culture the weaker one may be developed to such an extent thit in time tnere would be transmitted to his posterity a faculty with the opposite tendency DAYLIGHT AND MOONLIGHT. I road bayliglr, and at noun, Yesterday 3 saw the mocm 1 1, 1 S iling high but faint and white, As school boy's paper kite. 1895. NUMBER 17 God, in giving the commandments to the Hebrews, exemplifies the necessity of negative. Not only did he say "love thy neighbor as thyself," and "honor thy father and mother," but also "thou shalt not steal," "thou shalt not kill," and "thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighI read a Poet's mystic lay ; bor." Tjese instructions were not Ai d it seemed to me at most. predominating. The laws of heredity and effects of intended to govern only the generation As a phantom, or a ghost, education should be studied juiuUy, living at that time, but to govern many Hut at length t e feverish ay. and it is apoint to .ay, tut miuy a generations yet uuborn. Like a passion died away, woulcl-- be Children of strongly inherited Luther, Gjff or Stowe have Ai d the iiight, serene and still, to vice should be warned of becu born but to die, leaving no traces Tell on village vale, and hul. of a life well spent 10 philanthropic tneir inheriiauce, and if properly TLen the moon, in a 1 her pride, deeds to immortalize aud make sacred trained, can te taught to loathe the Like a spirit glorified, their memory. things that tend to dwarf the intellect Filled and overflowed the night, Tae importance of early training and develop the baser man. With the With revela:ions of her light. more and more impresses us as we knowledge of these natural obstacles And the Poet's song again, study the lavs of nature. Hence, the a pa it of his make up.be can be taught Passed like music through my brain, of a child's life, to obviate them to a great extent. The formative inflm-ucJiight interpreted to me, aside from home train 114:, which I think child can be taught to love the right Al its grace and mjstery. - Longfe'iow. is the most lastiug of all iolliences, is and hate the wronu; with the contrast in the hands of the teacners of our pub- strongly drawn before him he will not lic schools and the question c jnfrouts be in doubt as to "deeming himself a us, what shall we require of persons god or beast; nor iu doubt his mind or In broad daylight, yesterday, -- ten-danci- es e The body to preier." Since evil exists and always will are truly essential ; butthereare others exist, the only thing that remains to be equally important necessary to produce done is to limit it by educating the tilling places of so vital importance? Good moral character and intelligence Early Tra in i 7i Persian maxim, "What you rl would have appear in tile life o p a nation, you must put in hi r schools," forcibly impresses one with the idea of what shall become of the nation whose childien are educated in ((JfjN? ME the schools of vice which are numerous, and which grapple their subjects with so tenacious a hold. In humanity, the two elements, virtue and vice, are so mixed that it is sometimes difficult to determine where one end and the other begins, yet they are widely seperate. The predominating one is well balanced minds stimulated This is our only stronghold. Some clamor for legislation, but the ballot in the hands ot the uneducated is a deadly foe to right. We have but to refer to history to prove the statement. If as much attention were paid to the building up of our school systems, as to the commercial interests, and more thorough investigations of nature and mankind, much good would by people. vigorous physical force. The erroneous doctrine of instructing children only In the t llir motive should be banished from the minds of educators. Some lave gone so for as to say that of the evil things existing children should be kept in ignorance : teach tnem to love the ltawcrs, roc ks, rivers, bird?, a d all that is jeautif ul in nature. But we should remember result. that the opposite forces are ever on the The intermingling of the practical alert, and the child will in time tind with moral and spiritual sentiments himself face to face with hitherto un- would develop a higher type of School Adviser. dreamed of foes. .-- Normal |