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cllity, and obedience, of his three fons. An 

 high degree of ftammering retarded and 

 embarraffed his utterance. The eldeft boy, 

 Charles, had contra&ed the propenfity. 

 With that wifdom, which marked the 

 Dodlor's obfervations on the habits of life } 

 with that deciiion of conduct, which al- 

 ways inftantly followed the conviction of 

 his mind, he fent Charles abroad ; at once 

 to break the force of habit, formed on the 

 contagion of daily example, and from a 

 belief, that in the pronunciation of a fo- 

 reign language, hefitation would be le'fs 

 likely to recur, than in fpeaking thofe 

 words and fentences, in which he had been 

 accuftomed to hefitate. About his twelfth 

 year he was committed to the care of the 

 fcientific, the learned, the modeft, and 

 worthy Mr. Dickinfon, now reftor of Bli- 

 mel, in Shroplhire. 



That the purpofe of the experiment 

 might not be fruftrated, Dr. Darwin im- 

 prefled that good jnan's mind with the ne- 



ceffity 



