. The bird . eofjle, the childish people,in a rude and restless childhood. If they cannot be doing in creating,they will be doing by destioying. But what they most fatally injure is—themselves! A violenteducation, stormily impassioned in love or severity, crushes in thechild, withers, chokes up the firet moral flower of natural sensitiveness,all that was purest of the maternal milk, the germ of universal lovewhich rarely blooms again. Among too many children we are saddened by their almost incred-ible sterility. A few recover from it in the long circle of life, whenthey have become experienced
. The bird . eofjle, the childish people,in a rude and restless childhood. If they cannot be doing in creating,they will be doing by destioying. But what they most fatally injure is—themselves! A violenteducation, stormily impassioned in love or severity, crushes in thechild, withers, chokes up the firet moral flower of natural sensitiveness,all that was purest of the maternal milk, the germ of universal lovewhich rarely blooms again. Among too many children we are saddened by their almost incred-ible sterility. A few recover from it in the long circle of life, whenthey have become experienced and enlightened men. But the firstfreshness of the heart ? It shall return no more.* How is it that this nation, otherwise born under such felicitouscircumstances, is, with rare and local exceptions, accursed with sosingular an incapacity for harmony ? It has its own peculiar songs,its charming little melodies of vivacity and mirth. But it needs aprolonged effort, a special education, to attain to ■I ^■f -! K^Jii < Page 158. Flattening of the brain.—The weight of the brain,compared with that of the body, is, in the Ostrich, in the ratio of 1 to 1200 Goose, 1 to 860 Duck, 1 to 257 Eagle, 1 to 160 * Compare Byron, in Don Juan. 32G ILLUSTEATIYE NOTES. Plover 1 to 122 Falcon, 1 to 102 Paroquet, 1 to 45 Eobin 1 to 82 Jay 1 to 28 Chaffinch, cock, sparrow, goldfinch 1 to 25 Hooded tomtit 1 to 16 Bhie-cap tomtit, 1 to 12 [Estimate of Jluller and )
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