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 it— or ome foolih prevaricating ubterfuge will occur, to ilence any reproaches of the mind which may arie, if an attention to truth has been inculcated.

Another caue or ource of art is injudicious correction. Accidents or giddy tricks are too frequently punihed, and if children can conceal thee, they will, to avoid chatiement. Retrain them, therefore, but never correct them without a very ufficient caue; uch as a violation of truth, cruelty to animals, inferiors, or thoe kind of follies which lead to vice.