Identifier: howtoeducatefee00bray (find matches)
Title: How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Bray, Charles, 1811-1884. (from old catalog) Sizer, Nelson
Subjects: Phrenology Emotions
Publisher: New York, S. R. Wells & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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feeling in petty revenge isoften foolishly encouraged by nurses, Did the naughtystick fall down and hurt baby ?—heat naughty stick !and even if a brother or sister are the offenders, thesame amiable spirit of retaliation is impressed. A ladyonce trod inadvertently on the toes of a little cherub-faced girl; she pursued her like a fury, and would notbe appeased till she had stamped on her toes in return.The natural tendency of this feeling is an eye for aneye, and a tooth for a tooth. Parents themselves fre-quently punish their children on the same principle foran involuntary error, provided its consequences are vex-atious to themselves. The tone of correction in gen-eral partakes too much of passion and the spirit ofrevenge rather than of sorrov/ and of love. While thisis the case, we can not expect children to learn to sub-due the irritation of temper they feel when anythingdispleases them, and the habit once formed of givingway to it will be most diflSicult of subjection in after-
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t) GEN. ISRAEL PUTNAM.DESTRUCTIVENESS. PLATE IV, t)estructivenefiR. SO life. When united with an excess of this feeling thereis a considerable love of opposition in a child, the tem-per becomes extremely difl&cult to manage, and perhapsthe only way to succeed is to avoid as much as possibleall occasions of exciting it, so that the feeling may de-crease for want of exercise; while at the same time wecultivate diligently the moral and reasoning powers tooppose it. Even in the cradle the discipline should bebegan; everything that is liable to excite the temper,to rouse the irascible feelings, should as far as possiblebe avoided, and when once excited, instead of leavingthe child to cry and wear its passion out, its attentionshould be diverted and its feelings changed. Fromwant of proper caution in small instances like this, achild frequently commences life with a bias in the tem-per and disposition not easily to be remedied. Sometimes, when the outward burst of passion isconquered, t

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