Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-02-11
Indication ei the EeaIt.

It is the wee Of the age 10 substitute
learning for wisdom to educate the head
and forget therc is Il more important c!uca-
tion necessary f3r tie heart. The reason
j. cultivated a all age when nature does
not furnish the elements necessary to sue
ccssful cultivation Of it; and the child is
solicited TO reflection, when it is only
capable of sensation and emotion In in
fancy the strength and the memory are
only excited strongly by the sense and move
the heaft. The father may instil more
solid and available instructions in an hour
spent in the fields where wisdom and
goodness are 'exempliied, seen and felt,
than month spent IN the study, wnerc
they are expounded in stcreotyped apho-
risms.
No physician doubts that precocisus
children, fifty cases for one, are much the
worse for the discipline they have under
gone. The mind seems to have been
strained, and the foundation for insanity
isIaid
When the strlies of mature. years are
s,ufftd into the head of the child, people
do not reflect on the anatomical fact, that
the brain Of an infant is not the train OF
man: that the one is confirmed, and can
bear cxertions; and the other Is growing anu
REQUIRES rcpose; that to force the attention
70 abstract facts to load the memory with
chronological and historical or scientific
detail in short, TO expect 4 child 5 BRAN
to bear with impuuity the eXertions OF
mans, is as irrational as would be to hazard
tnr same sort of experiments on ITS muscles.
The first eight or ten years of life should
be devoted to the education ot the heart
TO the formation of principles, rather than
to the requirement OF what Is usually
termed knowledge. Nature herself points
out this course, for the emotions are the
liveliest and most easily moul led, being
as yet unalloyed by passion 1t is from
this source the mass Of men are hereafter
to show their sum of happiness and misery
The actions of the immense majority arc
under all circumstances determined much
more by feeling than reflection; in truth,
life presents happiness that we should
feel rightly very few instances occur where
it is necessary that we should think pro-
foundly.
Tn to the seventh year of life, very
great changes are going on in the structure
of the brain, and demand, therefore, the
utmost attention, not to interrupt them by
improper or over excitement. Just that
depree Of exercise should be given to the
brain at this period tina, is necessary to Its
health : and the bcst is moral instruction,
exampllfiad by the objects which strike the
scuses. -.-.- ---
1t is, perhaps, necessary to add, that al
this period Of this life special attenioi
should be given, both by parents am
teachers, to the physical developomeut 1"
the child Pure air and exercise are IN
dspensablc and wherever they are with
L,ld. the consequences will lie certain to ez
tend themsclycs over the whole future life
The seeds of protracted and hopeles!
sutterings have, in innumerabic instances
been sown in the constitution Of the child
simply through ignorance of this grea
fundamental physical law; and the tim
has come when the united voices Of thes
innocent victims should ascend " trumpet
tongued,' to the ears Of every parent AM
teacher in the land Give US fresh al
and wholesome exercise, leave our expand
ing energies to be developed in accordanc
to the laws Of our being, and full Of sccp
for the elastic aud bounding impulses
our young blood - 2aarteriy R'rier.