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approved luscious varieties. Why cannot re- 

 formers and teachers work more on this princi- 

 ple ? With multitudes, repression seems the 

 favorite method of getting the world right 

 "Thou shalt not" enact government. "It is 

 not proper," cries society with elevated eye- 

 brows. "You mustn't do this, don't do that," 

 constantly falls on the little children's ears ; and 

 preaching consists more largely in telling men 

 what they ought not to do, than in what they 

 may and should do. Nice little boys and girls, 

 that were started rightly from the first, and had 

 grace "budded in " with their mother's milk, 

 get along very well. They go out into the world 

 like trees from the rows in the nursery, straight, 

 pruned, labelled, and warranted, though often a 

 little weakly. Still they have much to be thank- 

 ful for, and all they have to do is to grow as 

 they have been directed. But society is full of 

 boys and girls that have come up on " their own 



