How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . mpts to accomplish theirideas, until the well-rigged boat, the freely-workingsteam-engine, stand forth in miniature perfection toreward their perseverance. In such cases the facultywiU, unless checked by peculiar obstacles, or intellectualdeficiencies, go on developing itself until it leads tosuccess in some branch of science or the arts which re-quires mechanical skill. It might seem necessary topoint out the absurdity of compelling such children
How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . mpts to accomplish theirideas, until the well-rigged boat, the freely-workingsteam-engine, stand forth in miniature perfection toreward their perseverance. In such cases the facultywiU, unless checked by peculiar obstacles, or intellectualdeficiencies, go on developing itself until it leads tosuccess in some branch of science or the arts which re-quires mechanical skill. It might seem necessary topoint out the absurdity of compelling such children toenter into a line of profession quite at variance withthis natural taste, if we did not so often see it com-mitted. In few children is the faculty so deficient thatthey might not always employ themselves profitably inits cultivation if materials were afforded them, and ifthe usual prohibition were not laid upon ^ making alitter. Persons who teach music, the piano for instance,know how desirable it is that their pupils should beginearly to use the keys, as their fingers then acquire afacility which can iiot be attained in after-life; in the. THOMAS A. PLATE VII. Constructiveness, S? same manner children, under the instinctive impulsesof this faculty, if properly assisted and instructed, gaina mechanical dexterity of infinite service to them inalmost all the pursuits of life, and which might verymuch lessen the necessary term of apprenticeship toany manual employment. Wlien this facility in theuse of the fingers is not acquired early, and when thenatural disposition to it is deficient, it can. seldom beafterward attained, and an inaptitude for all manualoperations will be conspicuous through life. Buildinghouses, bridges, etc., with wooden bricks, or with cards,joining dissected maps, cutting figures on paper, draw-ing, are all exercises of this faculty, and therefore use-ful indoor amusements ; but it should be borne inmind that children ai^e always h
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