How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . independently of the pleasure orpain with which it may be accompanied. It inducesmen to cling to life in circumstances in which other- * Natural timidity, through excessive Cautiousness, mayco-exist in a child with large Combativeness, which, whenaroused, produces force and courage; and in characterthey act alternately, or in harmony, according to the natureand influence of circumstances. The little boy who wasafraid to go to bed in an adjoining r
How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . independently of the pleasure orpain with which it may be accompanied. It inducesmen to cling to life in circumstances in which other- * Natural timidity, through excessive Cautiousness, mayco-exist in a child with large Combativeness, which, whenaroused, produces force and courage; and in characterthey act alternately, or in harmony, according to the natureand influence of circumstances. The little boy who wasafraid to go to bed in an adjoining room, on account ofthe darkness, and because he sometimes heard rats run-ning in the walls and ceiling, was cured by having a longstick placed in his hands by his father, with directions towhip on the wall when he heard the rats running. Hewaited to hear their noise, and when it was begun, hewhipped on the wall and silenced them. He had won avictory. The exercise of Combativeness gave him pleasure;his Cautiousness was silenced; and every night he was ina hurry to have darkness and bedtime come so that hemight watch for the rats, stick in JACOB M. —LOVE OF LIFE. PLATE IX. Love of Life. 65 wise existence might not be thought desii^able. Thisinstinctive feeling it is which, perhaps, more thanreason or principle, prevents men escaping from tem-porary suffering by suicide. It is this feeling, assistedby Hope and Wonder (Spirituality), which has, in allcountries, unaided by a supernatural revelation, origi-nated the idea of a future state. Little can be said herewith reference to the education of the feeling, althoughmuch mischief results from the too common mode oftreating the subject of death. The consequence of theinjudicious representations so frequently made is thegreat dread of death that sometimes embitters thewhole of life; the only antidote to which feeling is thefaith which enables us to place our ultimate fate, withunbounded confidence, in the ha
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