How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . e brought up to considergreat and good and worthy of honor. According tothese imbibed notions, it may be directed to rank, titles,ancestry, wealth, particular creeds and customs, laws * If one will look at any garment or structure, he will beastonished to see how much of the work bestowed upon itwas inspired by the faculty of Ideality. One-half the ma-terial and at least two-thirds of the work on a ladys dress,are in response to the sense of beaut
How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . e brought up to considergreat and good and worthy of honor. According tothese imbibed notions, it may be directed to rank, titles,ancestry, wealth, particular creeds and customs, laws * If one will look at any garment or structure, he will beastonished to see how much of the work bestowed upon itwas inspired by the faculty of Ideality. One-half the ma-terial and at least two-thirds of the work on a ladys dress,are in response to the sense of beauty. Look at the carv-ings, the moldings, the fine wood and trimmings whichenter into the composition of the furniture of a single well-fumished room! Observe the architectural decoration ofthe house inside and out, the moldings, cornices, the pan-eling, the mantels, the frescoes, the elegant staircases; andthen the curtains, carpets and upholstery, and tell us ifthree-fourths^f all you see would not come under the headof decoration. We feel that we can not do without some-thing in this line, and realize that A thing of beauty is a joy VENERATION. PLATE XVill The Religious Feelvags. 1S5 and institutions : or it may be attached to those objects,persons, and institutions, most worthy from their realgreatness and goodness to excite respect and its right direction is highly important; for what-ever may be its objects, it is very diJBficnlt in after lifeto break the association between them and the feeling,though reason may plainly point out the absurdity ofthe connection, and the small inherent claim to our re-spect they may possess. The feeling is an important auxiliary in moral train-ing. Mr. Combe says: It is the chief ingredient infihal piety, and produces that soft and almost holy def-erence with which a child looks up to its parent, as theauthor of his days, the protector of his infancy, and theguide of his youth. It constitutes part of the charmof soc
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