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even in our best directed establishments, as well as in 

 private families, cultivation is still in a great measure 

 confined to intellect alone ; and the direct exercise 

 and training of the moral and religious sentiments 

 and affections upon their own objects are rarely 

 thought of as essential to their full and vigorous 

 development. Moral precepts are no doubt offered 

 in abundance ; but these address themselves chiefly 

 to the intellect. We must not be satisfied with 

 merely exclaiming, "Be kind, just, and affectionate," 

 \vhen perhaps at the very moment we are counter- 

 acting the effect of the advice by our own opposite 

 conduct. Parents and teachers too often forget 

 that the sentiments feel, and do not reason, and that, 

 consequently, a mere child may, by the instinctive 

 operation of its moral nature, at once detect and be 

 revolted at the immorality of practices, the true 

 character of which its reason is unable to penetrate 

 or expose. What kind of moral education is that, 

 for instance, which, while the instructress vilifies 

 the physical appetites of hunger and thirst, and 

 preaches disregard of their cravings and of the grati- 

 fications of taste, leads her to set down a meal to 

 her boarders, from partaking in which she betrays 

 the strongest desire to escape, on account of its 

 inferiority to that which is provided for herself and 

 the few at the head of the establishment? What 

 advances in morality and religion can be expected 

 under the charge of one, who says, " Do unto others 

 as you would be done by" and then leaves his depend- 

 ants to suffer pain, chilblains, and disease, from 

 want of fire to warm the room in which they sit, he 

 himself coming into it with features flushed by the 

 heat of the blazing fire, which, for weeks, has been 

 provided for his comfort in his own apartment? 

 What generosity of feeling can arise from the super- 

 intendence of a teacher, who, though liberally paid 

 for the food of her pupils, and with moral precepts 

 on her lips, satisfies the cravings of nature in the 



