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 excite their curioity. A tate for the beauties of nature hould be very early cultivated: many things, with repect to the vegetable and animal world, may be explained in an amuing way; and this is an innocent ource of pleaure within every one's reach.

Above all, try to teach them to combine their ideas. It is of more ue than can be conceived, for a child to learn to compare things that are imilar in ome repects, and different in others. I wih them to be taught to think—thinking, indeed, is a evere exercie, and exercie of either mind or body will not at firt be entered on, but