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Show F.DUQAT1XG THE HKAKT. Ir is the ice of tho age to substitute j learning for wisdom to educate the head ! (aud to forget that there is a mum tropotv tanl education necessary for the heart. Tile rcBiuu is cultivated at an age when nature does not furnhh the elements necessary ne-cessary ton jsuccesafui cultivation of it, and the child 1 solicited tq reflection when ! he is onlv seuMblc of sensation nud cino-1 tion. In infancy, the altcntiou aud memo- ry are ouly excited strongly by things J which hnptess the senses aud move the , heart, and a father will initil more solid! and available itwt ruction in an hour spent j iu the field-, where whdom and goodnetA are esempltfled, seen und felt, than a mouth spent iu the study, where they ate wcjiouuded In stereotyped aphorisms. No physician doubts that precocious childreu, ,in fifty cases for cue, ura much worse Tor the discipline they have under-1 under-1 gone, The mind scants to baye been e'trahi' !td and the foundations of insanity are laid. When tho studies of tnattuer yeara nte. 'stuffed into tho child's head, people do not reflect on tbe nuatomlcal fuel that the brain of an infant Is not the brain of a man. The first eight or ten years of life should be devoted mainly to the education edu-cation of the heart to tho formation of principles rather Iheu to the acquirement of what is usually called knowledge. ! Xnturu itself points out Mich a course, ,fcr the emotions are then the livliest and i most easily monlded, being as yet uaal-I uaal-I loytd by passion. It U from this source ithat men arc hereafter to draw their snm of happiness or "misery. The action of thq immense majority aro, audrr alt ciri cnostAuce, detcnalped touch -more. 07 ftahng than reflectioa, is truth, Iif pr seats an infinity of occasions' where It- is essential to bsppiness that we sjjonM not think prcfouedly. |