The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-09-29
ITEMS OF THOUGHT.
BY PARABOLA.

By PARABOLA.
Number Fourteeu.-Pubic Education and Chill
-- dren's Rigkts. r..
We have seen that, under popular gorernsl
uent, oil civil and political pfoblems are
solved by the supreme condition of Equal Lib
erty. We must, therefore, see the bearing Of
this condition upon the status and education
of children. Have children title to any lib
ertyf Must they necessarily be under the alb
selute subsection Of parents, or of the MAORI
ty-yclept the State, or of both State and pa
rents according to circumstanoes' Is the
principle Of Equal Liberty, if.,s.any degree, ap-
plicable to children; and. $50, in what re-
specti - -
No one will fail to see, at once, the absolute
from children the fulness of Liberty-tbe fac
ulty of doing as they will. The necessity of
refusing much Of this, even to admits, is also
manifest. The Limitations imposed Q) by the
SIMULTANEOUS title vested in every individual
ty, I2) by the instructive equity of the natural
conscience, and (3) by the overspreading SOW
ereignty of the "Word of God" cannot be ig-
nored with impunity but, within these bound
aries, we easily see there is q large range for
the exercise of discretion, option and free-do-
degree Of liberty (f any they may enjoy, and
| of which there is no necessity Of depriviug
them. is not go apparent. They have not the
experience or discernment to determine their
1 own conduct. and are consequently dependant
and con trolled. But from this very fact arise
rights and liberties, beautiful and great, which
vindicate, as it were, the wisdom and goodness
| of divine Providence.
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children to depend merely on reaso6 or human
prudence and laws, or even on the general
sympathy Of society. These would have been
wholly inadequate. The perpetuation of man
kind, the rearing and happiness of children
are entrusted to the parental and ftial feelings
; planted in the animal consultation of man
and sanctifed by the commandments of God
It would be superduous to describe these ia
.. miliar. sentiments and precepts. father ant
| motherss love and solioitude are ever apparent
, lin genial and beaming beauty, around MS, ii
, every direction; and their absence from an.
: family strikes Us with horror, since it is con
, trary to common experience and sentiment
SO also the childs return Of love to his parent.
his absolute trust in their self sacrificing OF
feotion and solicitude. Honor thy father an
tby,mothsr, 10 the express ordinance of Goo
i 30 also the tenderness Of parents toward
y their children is ever praised and urged in th
= scriptares; but what gives this mutual an
5 fpsoVidentiel love the -greatest eo1at and dit
j. nifty is that the eternal, infinite, and Almght
d Is pleased in His, goodness to mako Hinse
!. knewn to us as "our Fsther, ITO compare H
= love for us to that of our parents, and to as
! from MS, in return, the devotion aud obedien'
"a of children. "My SON give me thine heart
3 saith the Lord.
ID Now, state this incontrovertable propoi
e tiOu: that every child, poor as well rs rio
- should have the liberty Of enjoying the unl
=. vailed and peculiar lore hie parents have
him, and Of indulgipg the natural and hAbitu
. fnfatuation no feels for them. Every Atteua
IN. to deprive him of this double and fecfprot
10 inclinatiOu- Is violation Of his liberty,
a, natural instincts, his duty aud aspirations
-o- wards his Creator. ~ '-
I'VE Is 10 not plain and do we not know tn
cir barring q few monstrous exceptions, parer
Led actuated by their feelings. and religion, win
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