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request to know their structure and use. The 

 memory now improves, and a knowledge of right 

 and wrong, with the fear of punishment, and the 

 love of reward, altogether prepare the mind for 

 a more active dicipline, and an enlarged in- 

 struction. 



In a few years, full boyhood commences ; the 

 physical powers have acquired sufficient stability 

 to admit of very active bodily exercise ; the moral 

 duties (however occasionally opposed by per- 

 verseness,) are better understood ; the mind 

 receives with readiness and retains many of those 

 multiplied ideas, which are afterwards to be 

 practically applied ; and a desire for knowledge 

 (though limited in its objects,) bespeak the pro- 

 gress of the understanding, and the mental ex- 

 citements which early practice had produced. 

 This stage of coercion and instruction is gradu- 

 ally preparing the mind for nobler attributes, and 

 for much greater achievements. 



The years advance at last into early manhood, 

 when the passions take a new direction, and 

 produce a train of actions very different from 

 those of more youthful days ; and though the 

 mind, at this period, be too little under the con- 

 troul of the judgment, yet its comprehensive 

 faculties, and the energy by which they are 

 directed, at once evince the increase of its powers, 

 the result of an improved constitution and pre- 

 viously mental exercise. 



