42 JEROME CARDAN. 



CHAPTER III. 



FATHERLY AND HOUSEHOLD CARES MARVELS OF SCIENCE THE 

 PROFESSORSHIP RESIGNED. 



THERE is no fault in the parent, said Cardan, that we 

 may not hope to see amended in the child. " What may 

 we not hope of children? We are old and they are 

 young; we sick, they sound; we weak, poor, despised, 

 they robust, rich, and of much esteem ; we bearing envy 

 and enmity, exiles, they grateful among friends and in 

 their home. There is nothing that the parent suffers of 

 which he may not hope that it will not be suffered by his 

 child 1 ." 



The first joy of the parent 2 , said the philosopher, than 

 whom no father ever was more fond, the first joy of the 

 parent is when a child is to be born. Then let the mother 

 be well cared for, let her eat this and not eat that, and let 



1 De Utilitate ex Adyersis Capienda (ed. cit.), p. 248. 



- Ibid. pp. 975983, for the account of the six joys of parents in 

 their children, and for the succeeding details, where no other reference 

 has been appended. 



