393 MEMOIRS OP 



" attach to them an idea of dignity and 

 " importance." 



Perhaps, if Dr. Darwin had to this 

 incomplicate and fo eafily practicable fyf- 

 tem, added the infpiration of religion by the 

 fame means, viz. exprefled contempt for 

 impiety, and daily example of grateful de- 

 votion, it would better anfwer the end of 

 making wife and good men and women, 

 than all the laboured Treatifes on Educa- 

 tion which have, of late years, been poured 

 from the prefs ; Treatifes fo univerfally 

 read, fo feldom, if ever, even in theflighteft 

 degree, reduced to practice ! In truth they 

 muft be found impracticable, inconfrftent 

 as they are with the eftabliihed habits, of 

 fociety. Obedience to their directions muft 

 devote every prefent generation, at leaft the 

 maternal part of every prefent generation, 

 to preparing the future. Every mother 

 muft be wholly abforbed in word- watching, 

 and look -watching, and all this by 'hook 



Yet 



