. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XVII. THE EDUCATION OF PARENTS. O dearest, dearest boy ! my heart For better lore would seldom I but teach the hundredth part Of what from thee I learn.—IVordsziwih, How admirable is the arrangement through which human beings areled by their strongest affections to subject themselves to a discipline theywould else elude.—Herbert Spencer. Y friend, said an old Quaker, to a lady whocontemplated adopting a child, I know nothow far thou wilt succeed in educating her, butI am quite certain she will educate you. How
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XVII. THE EDUCATION OF PARENTS. O dearest, dearest boy ! my heart For better lore would seldom I but teach the hundredth part Of what from thee I learn.—IVordsziwih, How admirable is the arrangement through which human beings areled by their strongest affections to subject themselves to a discipline theywould else elude.—Herbert Spencer. Y friend, said an old Quaker, to a lady whocontemplated adopting a child, I know nothow far thou wilt succeed in educating her, butI am quite certain she will educate you. Howencouraging and strengthening it should be forparents to reflect that, in training up their children in the waythey should go, they are at the same time training up them-selves \\\ the way they should go; that along with the educationof their children their own higher education cannot but becarried on. In Silas Marner, George Eliot has shown how. t^S HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. \iy means of a little child a human soul may be redeemed hom•cold, petrifying isolation; how all its feelings may be freshened,rejuvenated, and made to flutter with new hope and activity. Very simple is the pathos of this matchless work of but the story of a faithless love and a false friend andthe loss of trust in all things human or divine. Nothing butthe story of a lone, bewildered weaver, shut out from his kind,concentrating every baulked passion into one—the all-engross-ing passion for gold. And then the sudden disappearance ofthe hoard from its accustomed hiding-place, and in its steadthe startling apparition of a golden-haired little child found one^nowy winters night sleeping on the floor in front of theglimmering hearth. And the gradual reawakening of love inthe heart of the solitary man, a love drawing his hope andjoy continually onward beyond the money, and once morebringing him into sympathetic relations with his fellowme
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