How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . rom their extra power of belief, fromtheir giving to such tales a reality in their own mindswhich to others they do not assume. Dr. ThomasBrown has shown that what we call Cause and Effectare mere Antecedence and Consequence, and that thereis no reason that we can discover why any one causeshould produce any one effect more than another, ex-cept that it always has done so—that is, the antecedenceand consequence have been observed to be invariable,
How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . rom their extra power of belief, fromtheir giving to such tales a reality in their own mindswhich to others they do not assume. Dr. ThomasBrown has shown that what we call Cause and Effectare mere Antecedence and Consequence, and that thereis no reason that we can discover why any one causeshould produce any one effect more than another, ex-cept that it always has done so—that is, the antecedenceand consequence have been observed to be invariable,the belief of a necessary connection between cause andeffect is produced by this faculty. It results from thisthat one thing is not more wonderful to young childrenthan another; they believe all things with equal facil-ity. There is no real reason that we know of why onething should follow another in the relation of cause andeffect, except that it does follow it, and there is equallyno real reason why one thing should not follow another,however absurd the expectation that it will do so mayappear to our mature experience; consequently, chil-. ^^^- THOMAS WHITAKER. WONDER—SPIRITUALITY. PLATE XX. Wonder. 151 dren believe equally in all things—in the most mon-strous prodigies of romance as well as in the mostsimple and common events, until experience or theirteacher has given a proper direction to their faith, andtaught them the difference between accidental and in-variable antecedence. Keither is this kind of faithpeculiar to childhood: almost every ones rehgiouscreed contains mysteries, frequently contradictions,which are believed equally with the simplest articlesof faith. Children easily believe—^they have to betaught to disbelieve. They personify everything, andlive in a world of their own creating, which is as realto them as our world is to us. Anything, from a cush-ion to a boot-jack, makes into a doll, and the doll is aliving person—animals talk, trees hold counci
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