How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . on (pity that parents should so often resign thisadvantage into other and ill-qnalified hands!); but, asthey become older, and better able to look beyond self,they may be led to value most as friends those who aremost deserving of esteem; and even in young childrenit is delightful sometimes to witness the generous pridethat is taken in the good qualities and dispositions oftheir little companions. Unless the young be led thusto discriminate, they
How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . on (pity that parents should so often resign thisadvantage into other and ill-qnalified hands!); but, asthey become older, and better able to look beyond self,they may be led to value most as friends those who aremost deserving of esteem; and even in young childrenit is delightful sometimes to witness the generous pridethat is taken in the good qualities and dispositions oftheir little companions. Unless the young be led thusto discriminate, they will naturally, nnder the guidanceof this propensity, make choice of such persons forfriends who have greater number of feelings in com-mon with themselves, or who most gratify their ownfeelings. Thus they may attach themselves to thosewho gratify their pride, or vanity, or appetite; theirprodigality or senseless prejudices. When this bondof union is dissolved, and these feelings are no longerindulged, the attachment is alienated—for it is on thebasis of the moral sentiments only that friendship canbe permanent—bnt the ill effects ANNA C. M. PLATE XIV. i Adhesiveness, 101 And yet tlie feeling may, by judicious management,be so directed and regulated in the young as to renderit impossible that they should, at any period of life,exercise it upon an unworthy object. Under such regulation nothing can be more amiablethan the manifestation of a warm, affectionate disposi-tion, although the want of it in early childhood neednot, perhaps, be the source of much anxiety. A greatdifference is observable in children as to the proportionof this feeling in their constitutions. One child seemsas if he could not be happy for a moment without hisaccustomed companions; if he goes to play, they mustgo too; if he learns, he will do it best when they learnwith him. I have known one twin brother commit thesame trivial fault for which the other was sufferingpunishme
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