Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-12-22
The Education of the Heart

We commend the subioincd iudicious r
marks, from an able pen, to the discrimin
ting attention and regard as well of paren
as of teachers. They contain an importnr
principle in reference to the education of III
young, and one which cannot be too carefully
needed
1t is the vice of the age to substitut. carr
ing Tor wlSdom--to educate the head, AN
forget that there is more important cducG
ton necessary for the heart. The reason i
cultivated at an age when nature does not fur
nlSh the elements necessary to Il successful
cultivation of it and the child is solicited It
reflection when he is only capable of sensation
and emotion. In infancy the attention ant
memory are only excited strongly by thing
VI ich Impress the sense and move the heart
and the father shall instl more solid and avail
able instruction in an hour spent in the fields
where Wisdom and goodness arc excmpifcd
seen and felt, than in Il mouth spent in study,
whore tAeSsdtt spent trsfeoEype apBlis5fIsIs s
No physician doubts that prccocious CHI
dren, i'll fifty eases for one, arc much vol
for the discipline they have undergone lI
mind seems to have been strained, and I.
| foundations for insanity are laid Whcu%l
child head, people do not reflect on thu u
tomical fact that the brain of an iuf,ntno Il
the brain of Il man that the one is core an
and can bear cXcrtiou-thc other is is II
and requires reposc that to force thcE 'irn
ton to abstract facts-to load the u owl
with CHRONOLOGICAL, aud historical, and attic
the detnlls--in short to expect n chi3Ancmo
| to bear with impunity the cxcrtion -, scit
Is just as rational as it would be DIS br;
the same sort of experiment on its f'f ma
The first eight or ten years of lftu haz;
be devoted to the education of the ml uscle
the formation of principles rather tRite sho
requirement of what is usua!'y tcrnp Heart
edge. Nature herself points out sucfchdn to
for the emotions are then the livtricd kno
most easily moulded, being as yeti D q cour
by passion. 1t is from this sourcs lest
mass OF men are hereafter to drawpe unalln
of happiness or misery; the acti'Esc that
immense majority arc, under all circ'y their
determined much more by fcelinl ms of
reflection in truth life presents an hlnstalI
occasions where it is essential to Se'g thar
that we should feel rightly; very ay iniinit
it is at all necessary that We shouldn't happi
foundly. tfcw W
Up to the seventh wear of life, atlthink
changes are going OH in the structJw
brain, and demand, therefore, the pc"cry
tcntion not to interrupt them by inftr,rc OF
oycr-cXcitcmcnt just that dcgrcdccutmo
else should be given to the brain atar Nprop
cd as is necessary to its health; and H. of
is oral instruction, cXcmplifed bl III this
which strike the senses Y vi tho
1t is perhaps necessary to add tlIonty ol
period of life, especial attention Ishd
given both by parents and tcachel rs lat a
physical development of the child. , IpHHu
and free exercise arc Indispensable, Eanro'
ever either of these are withheld, Theory
qucnces will be certain to extend tIheSut d
over the whole future life. The schdsjb,ec
tracted and hopeless, sufFcrngs havd, i abln
merablc instances, oecn sown into lhcF OF
tuition of the child simply through ig putin,
of this great fundamental physical lapt u
the time has come when the united va tatn
these innocent victims shall ascend, trS' y
tongucd, to the ears Of every parent and "u'
teacher in the land. "Givo us free ping
wholesome exercise; leave to develop + ~,
pandinS energies in accordance with tttrod'
of our being, and full scope for the ella. pie u
bounding impulses of our young bloodho re
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DIRECT TRADE WITH EURopE.-Tbf tn
folk (Va) Chamber of Commerce Allify
sent John ID. Myrick as its agent to slina
toinvcstigot" the facilities for establish will
rect trade The Argus, in noticing unit
turn, says:
Several firms of the highest re hat tn
Liverpool, IIavre and Antwerp, haj tits
led to look to Norfolk as point fromjrndc
direct trade may be inaugurpted; ath Ca
are pledged to make cash advanceshs al
shipments that our entcrprising m htcnt
may make. 1t would not surprise ter as
of the French lines which the Emrpng Ii
taken under his liberal patronage, ! spir
induced by efforts in Virginia to ,lSyhcn
port its Western terminus Mr.. M4ment
obtained many valuable assurances led in
points, and we hope he will enable rAtrong
nish to the business communities of dnci,
the data which he has taken so mtclhl, ne
secure" Rd tw
NOBLE CoNsIsTENcY.--Whe TO I
Sidney was told that he might Nv n
by telling falsehood by denyirk bp,
writing--he said "When God III
me into a dilemma, in which nb IN
lie or lose my life, he gives me a jaf
ton Of my duty, which is to preS Q
falsehood."
CHRISTIAN morality is true 81