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 elaborate processes of education, and are just commencing what may be called the business of instruction, with children of seven and eight years old, of whom as much as has now been stated might be affirmed,and nothing more.

In a word, if the anxious inquiry of some parents, in relation to infancy and early childhood isWhat are the most effectual means of development? the inquiry which I would substitute for such a question is of this sortHow shall we best pass over the same period without any development but what is wholly spontaneous?