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284 brutes, whom they firt played with. The exercie of youthful ympathies forms the moral temperature; and it is the recollection of thee firt affections and puruits that gives life to thoe that are afterwards more under the direction of reaon. In youth, the fondet friendhips are formed, the genial juices mounting at the ame time, kindly mix; or, rather the heart, tempered for the reception of friendhip, is accutomed to eek for pleaure in omething more noble than the churlih gratification of appetite.

In order then to inpire a love of home and dometic pleaures, children ought to be educated at home, for riotous holidays only make them fond of home for their own akes. Yet, the vacations, which do not foter dometic affections, continually diturb the coure of tudy, and render any plan of improvement abortive which includes temperance; till, were they abolihed, children would be entirely eparated from their parents, and I quetion whether they would become better citizens by acrificing the preparatory affections, by detroying the force of relationhips that render the marriage tate as neceary as repectable. But, if a private education produces elf-importance, or inulates a man in his family, the evil is only hifted, not remedied.

This train of reaoning brings me back to a ubject, on which I mean to dwell, the neceity of etablihing proper day-chools.

But, thee hould be national etablihments, for whilt chool-maters are dependent on the caprice of parents, little exertion can be expected from them, more than is neceary to pleae norant&ensp;