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in theii' pleasures, and they will soon feel an aversion to 
you. Deny your children innocent gratifications. Treat 
the little mistakes of your children with ridicule. 2. How 
to make your children distrust you.- — Tell them untruths, 
and break your word with them. 3. How to make your 
children despise you.— Acquaint them with your faults. 
Lay many injunctions on them, without seeing whether 
they be obeyed ; threaten them often, without executing 
your threats ; and they will soon laugh at you. 4. Hotv 
to make your children soon hate and envy each other.— 
Bestow all your alfection on one, and none on the rest. 
Praise one child when you punish another. Take no no- 
tice of the injuries your children do one another, and ne- 
ver examine into the occasions of their quarrels. 5. How 
to stifle in your children the sentiments of humanity.- — 
Speak evil of people frequently in their presence. 6. How 
to teach children cruelty.— Instruct them early to take 
pleasure in the pains and sufferings of animals. 7. How 
to make your children revengeful,— When they are an - 
gry, give them something to vent their anger upon. 
When your child is hurt by any one, represent the mis- 
chief as very great, and never attribute any blame to him. 
8. How to teach children envy.— Represent the happiness 
of other people as a misfortune to them. 9. How to 
make children malicious.— When once you have brought 
them to regret the happiness of others, they will soon 
take pleasure in their misfortunes. 10. How to make 
children afraid of certain animals.— Endeavour to per- 
suade them, that they are venomous. 11. How to give 
children an aversion to people of different religious opi- 
nions from themselves.— Tell them, that God hates all 
who do not believe what they do. Set them a good 
example of this in your own practice. 12. How to make 
children insensible to the beauties of nature.— Reprove 
them when they notice any productions of nature, and call 
