CHAPTER XXI 



WEDGWOOD'S PERSONAL HISTORY HIS SONS' 

 EDUCATION 



NOTWITHSTANDING the various works in which he was 

 engaged, Wedgwood never neglected the interests of 

 his family. The most complete domestic happiness 

 was added to the general prosperity with which his 

 days were blessed. He was happy in his wife, to whom 

 he necessarily left the infancy of his children and, to a 

 certain extent, the training of his daughters ; but to 

 the education of his sons, after they had emerged from 

 the period of childhood, he paid especial attention. 



From the age at which the mind begins to unfold 

 its powers, and becomes sensible of having a part to 

 maintain among men, the training of his sons was in 

 the main his own. He lived with his children as with 

 friends, in an easy and unrestrained manner. He 

 showed them entire confidence, which they faithfully 

 returned. He permitted no deception or imposition to 

 be practised by them, even in jocularity, thus preclud- 

 ing all falsehood and dissimulation. 



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