Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-10-21
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have said that almost every human be-
Ing has some intellectual popularity some
moral twist away from the normal standard of
righteousness. Let it be added, that it is
little wonder that the fact should be as it is.
| do not think mere of certain unhappy
warpng OF an old original wrench, which hu-
man nature long ago received ami from which
il never has recovered am not writing as
a theologian and SO do not suggest the
grave consideration that human nature, being
fallen, need not be expected to be the right
working machinery that it may have been be-
tore II fell. But may at least say, look how
most people are educated consider the kind
OF training they get aud the incompetent
hands that train them what chance have
they OF being anything but screws f.? All,
my reader If horses were broken by people
as unfit Tor their work as most OF the people
who form human minds, there would not be q
horse IN the world that would not be dead
lame. You would not trust your thorough
bred colt, hitherto unhanded, 10 any one who
is not understood to have thorough knowl-
edge OF the characteristics and education Of
horses.
But IN numberless instances, even ia the
better classes OF society a thing which needs
to be guarded against thousand wroDr ten
dencles, and trained up to Thousand right
things from which it is ready 10 shrink. the
most sensitive and complicated thing in nature,
HE human soHl, is lett to have its character
formed by hands as hopeessy unfit for the
task as the Lord Chancellor is to prepare
the winner Of the next st, Leger. You find
parents and guardians systematically follow
ing course Of treatment calculated to bring
out the very worst tendencies o. the mind and
heart that are latent in the little things
given to their care.
II young horse has tendency to shy
how carefully the trainer seeks to win him
away from the habit. But ii poor little
boy has hasty temper, you may lind his
mother taking the greatest pains to irritate
that temper. II the little fellow has some
phlscaI or mental defects, you have seen pa.
rents who never miss au opportunity Of
throwing 1t IN the boys face parents who
always seem to exult in the thought that they
know the place where touch wiki cause to
wnce-the sensitive, unprotected point where
the dart of maigaity will never fail to get
home.
II child has said or done some wrong or
foolish taing' you will fnd parents who are
constantly raking up the remembrance of it,
Tor the pure pleasure Of giving pain. Would
any kindly man, who knows that his horse
has just fallen down and cut himself take
pans, when he came to bit of freshly ma
cadamized road, to bring down the poor
morse on the sharp stones again with his
bleeding knees ? And even where YOU do
not mad positive maignity in those intrusted
win the training Of human minds, you find
hopeless lncompetency exhibited in many
other ways; outrageous Stiffness, and vanity.
want oil honesty, and utter want Of sense.
say deliberately, instead Of wondering
that most minds ale such screws. | wonder
with indiscribabo surprise that they are not a
thousand time, worse for hcy are like trees
pruned and trained into uginess and barren.
ness They are like horses carefully tutored
to shy, kick, rear, and bite. 1t saws some.
thing hopeful as to what may yet be ma &c Of
human beings that most OF then are no
worse than they are. Some parents, iancyiug
too, that they are educating their children on
Christian principles, educate them in such
fashion that the only wonder is that the chill
dren do not end at the gaIlows. '-Couat,v
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