How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . u have been good to-day, and mamma loves youfor it, as, Because mamma loves you, she is gladwith you that you have been good to-day. It is not intended that praise should not accompanyright conduct, but that the pleasure thus excited shouldbe kept subordinate to the higher one. When thehigher one appears to be a sufficient motive, a wiseparent will be careful how he add a lower one, lest itshould be the means of weakening instead of strength-ening
How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . u have been good to-day, and mamma loves youfor it, as, Because mamma loves you, she is gladwith you that you have been good to-day. It is not intended that praise should not accompanyright conduct, but that the pleasure thus excited shouldbe kept subordinate to the higher one. When thehigher one appears to be a sufficient motive, a wiseparent will be careful how he add a lower one, lest itshould be the means of weakening instead of strength-ening the power of the former. He will make hischild understand, that the world frequently condemnswhat is right and approves what is wrong, and, there-fore, to enable himself to persevere in the path ofduty, he must learn to feel the consciousness of self-approval a suflScient reward. Self-respect is necessaryto this end, and with such a view the feeling which ex-cites it must be cultivated, if it appear to be naturallydeficient. Richter says, The desire to please with some goodquality which rules only in the visible or external king- ^ ^S55?J^^^. LEON PLATE Xl. Love of Approbation. Y3 dom, is so innocent and right, that the opposite, to beindiJfferent, or disagreeable, to the eye or ear, wouldeven be wrong. Why should a painter dress to pleasethe eye, and not his wife ? I grant yon there is apoisonous vanity and love of approbation ; that,namely, which lowers the inner kingdom to an outerone, spreads out sentiments as snaring nets for the eyeand ear, and degradingly buys and sells itself with thatwhich has real inherent value. Let a girl try to pleasewith her appearance, and her dress, but never withholy sentiments; a so-called fair devotee, who knewthat she was so, would worship nothing save herself,the devil, and her admirer. Every mother, and everyfriend of the family, should keep a careful watch overtheir own wish to praise—often as dangerous as tha
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