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122 as well as the mot ublime proof of affection; and the want of this power over the feelings, and of that lofty, dignified affection, which makes a peron prefer the future good of the beloved object to a preent gratification, is the reaon why o many fond mothers poil their children, and has made it quetionable whether negligence or indulgence is mot hurtful: but I am inclined to think, that the latter has done mot harm.

Mankind eem to agree that children hould be left under the management of women during their childhood. Now, from all the obervation that I have been able to make, women of enibility are the mot unfit for this tak, becaue they will infallibly, carried away by their feelings, poil a child's temper. The management of the temper, the firt, and mot important branch of education, requires the ober teady eye of reaon; a plan of conduct equally ditant from tyranny and indulgence: yet thee are the extremes that people of enibility alternately fall into; always hooting beyond the mark. I have followed this train of reaoning much further, till I have concluded, that a peron of genius is the mot improper peron to be employed in education, public or private. Minds of this rare pecies ee things too much in maes, and eldom, if ever, have a good temper. That habitual cheerfulnes, termed good-humour, is, perhaps, as eldom united with great mental powers, as with trong feelings. And thoe people who follow, with interet and admiration, the flights of genius; or, with cooler approbation uck in the intruction which has been elaborately prepared for&ensp;