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Moral Diſcipline.
excite their curioſity. A taſte for the beauties of nature ſhould be very early cultivated: many things, with reſpect to the vegetable and animal world, may be explained in an amuſing way; and this is an innocent ſource of pleaſure within every one's reach.
Above all, try to teach them to combine their ideas. It is of more uſe than can be conceived, for a child to learn to compare things that are ſimilar in ſome reſpects, and different in others. I wiſh them to be taught to think—thinking, indeed, is a ſevere exerciſe, and exerciſe of either mind or body will not at firſt be entered on, butwith,
