MATERNAL LOVE 



be harmed. Her intuitive good sense, her affection 

 and her kindness will often guide her rightly through 

 life ; her sense of justice never will ; for in her it 

 should scarcely have and seldom has an existence. 



Thus alike for man and woman the lessons of life 

 are learned. The state of infancy and of immaturity 

 continue much longer with man than with the lower 

 animals, in proportion to their respective term of years. 

 In the lessons taught in the long infancy the teacher 

 learns as well as teaches. The affection, unselfishness 

 and solicitude with which the child has been brought 

 up, react upon the parent, and extend their guiding 

 influence on his feelings and actions into a wider 

 circle than that in which they originated, and form 

 abstract ideas of the wise and good which in earlier 

 days he did not have. In this way alone the parent 

 is often rewarded. The stream of affection runs down- 

 ward ! the child too frequently taking as a matter of 

 course, with little sense of gratitude, all that has been 

 done for him for a score of years or more. Not until 

 he becomes a parent himself does he begin to recog- 

 nize how much has been given him in days long past. 



Life offers many problems that are hard to solve, 

 very many that cannot be solved. The best that we 

 can do is to look upon the world, not as we think it 

 might have been made, but as it really is ; to seek to 

 know the laws that govern it ; to understand how 

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