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 of many other proper leons for children. Thee hymns, I imagine, would contribute to fill the heart with religious entiments and affections; and, if I may be allowed the expreion, make the Deity obvious to the enes. The undertanding, however, hould not be overloaded any more than the tomach. Intellectual improvements, like the growth and formation of the body, mut be gradual—yet there is no reaon why the mind hould lie fallow, while its "frail tenement" is imperceptibly fitting itelf for a more reaonable inhabitant. It will not lie fallow; promicuous eeds will be own by accident, and they will hoot up Rh