Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ... intense power n pursuing their objects--that selfregulation which is the result of severe and habitual selftraining, and which fits them consequently for the training of others. We will begin with tracing the culture of a wellregulated mind in infancy, and follow it through its various stages to maturity, as far as that word is applicable to any attainment in this imperfect world. During the years of childhood we are regulated by others; and that mother best fulfils her duty who can soonest teach her child to begin to regulate itself. It seems that force of character is composed of three elements--physical energy, nervous energy, and mental energy; and that a man who possesses all three equally developed, and directed to worthy aims, has the power to be a very great man. Isaac Taylor, in his "Home Education," considers it as the duty of a mother to shelter the physical and nervous energy of her child during the first seven years of his life from over-tasking, that she may render him strong in these first two points for the successful culture of his mental energy at the commencement of the period of youth. If we look around us, even on those who are doing most in the world, we shall too often observe the workings of strong minds in weak bodies, and with shattered nerves; (such, alas! are most of our men of genius;) and, perhaps, if we could examine their early history, we might find that, gifted by God with the faculty of intense pursuit, they had wanted the above "shelter," and had been untrained to control and regulate the early movements of their minds. Precocious genius, power too early developed, and withdrawn from that repose and happy lack of notice which is its safest cradle, seldom lives to expand into its full strength, but pas...
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