Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-15
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The Reading of the Young.


we once sent Sunday School hook bv
lady patient of ours as a nreseot 20 he,
n'tle daughter On inquiring afterwards
now she liked it-"Ladeed doctor. 7 di9
2 ''ot gaOe 1t to her, as hare not had time to.
read aneySeIf" That mother soon passed
away, and doubtless to the better land, and
long years have passed away also, but we
nave never failed to admire that mothers
heart as often as the remembrance of her
ceaseless vigilance has occurred to us. ac-
companled with the earnest wish, that ell
parents should emulate that mothers care.
Up to the age of fifteen at least, and as long
al1er as affection for the parent will prevent
.ne d'from doing anything contrary to
the known wishes of father or mother. no.
book should be read by child without the
parents permission. Impressions are made
ior LIE, for eternity, on the miad, and
neart, and memory of childhood-impres-
sions which mould the character for ave, or
open up channels of thought which fix the
destiny.
Untold mischief has been done to the
minds and morals of the young by reading
books on physiology" so termed, causing
apprehensions which have acted as cease.
less torture to multitudes, until by consul
tatlon with honorable physicians, the
groundless apprehensions have been re-
moved, which had been excited by plausi-
BILE falsities and brazen-faced untruths.-
Equal care should be exercised as to the
religious, moral, and miscellaneous reading
OF the young. Very few of our daily penny
papers are fit to be read at the family fire.
side. Certainly not one in a dozen of all
our city weekly papers, not connected with
daily issue, but is chargeable Justly with
being made up with the verriest trash, to
say nothing of their frequent obscenity,
their slang, their spiteful hits at religion,
Its ministers, its professors, and the Bible
itself.
A drop of water will ultimately wear
through the solid rock, and drop by drop
will empty the ocean, and so is the infu-
ence of the repeated exhibition of bits of
sarcasm, and infdelity, and proclamation,
which portions of the press are steadily
throwing out. Not only are the minds of
the young injuriously affected by these
things, but persons of maturity, of intellect,
OF mental culture, will suffer by them.
1
Percival, the poet, recalled to many memo
rles his early promise, his later failure
How, with heart, mind, a culture Ca
pable of achieving great things for humani
ty, his light went down in the night of mis-
anthropy and almost atheism What wai
i sRa SQA TBS tAa6Ft ta and ed msaf sE asaqa.
Reading, the spring time of life, the malig
nant diatribes, the ranting atheism of Lor
i Byron. Had other books been placed i
the hands of this unfortunate man at tha
critical period Of his life-books whicl
would have cherished the better feeling
of his nature, which would have invited
out his sympathies towards his brother man
he might have died Howard, or Harlan
/ Page, about whom sweet memories vii
arise for ages to come, instead of dying a,
heis said to have done, an uucomely oddity
misanthrope, and an infdel.
Parents have ceaseless eye to wha
your younger children read.-HazPs Ncs
York Journal Of HEALTH