44 JEROME CARDAN. 



It is the fourth joy of parents to see the mind expand 

 within the growing child. He should be placed under a 

 master who is a married man 1 , and who, if it can be 

 afforded, should have charge only of a single family. The 

 discipline should be severe. If children are to become 

 well trained, and firm in virtue, Jerome, in one place, 

 says that they should be entrusted to a severe and even 

 cruel teacher, who would train them up in familiarity 

 with blows, with hunger, toil, the strictest temperance, 

 and subject them to a sharp despotism outside the doors 

 of home 2 . That, however, he gives as one strong expres- 

 sion of a general faith in the importance of rough training 

 for a boy. Elsewhere, in many passages, his creed assumes 

 a milder aspect. Home discipline must not be too severe, 

 the father must not be lost in the master; and it is one 

 use, Jerome thinks, of a schoolmaster, that the necessary 

 whippings may come only from his hand, and the hatred 

 of the children fall only upon his head. He would encou- 

 rage in boys the use of the most laborious games, and teach 

 them to regard nothing as more atrocious than the use of 

 dice, that render the rich man of the morning the beggar 

 of the night. 



de Prudentia Civili Liber recens in lucem protractus : vel e tenebris 

 erutus. Ludg. Bat. Elzevir. 1627, p. 695. 



1 De Ut. ex Adv. Cap. p. 981. 



2 Proxenata, pp. 691 694, for these and the next details. 



