Instinct and reason, philosophically investigated : with a view to ascertain the principles of the science of education / by Thomas Jarrold, M.D.

  • Jarrold, T. (Thomas), 1770-1853.
Date:
1736 [i.e. 1836]
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Credit: Instinct and reason, philosophically investigated : with a view to ascertain the principles of the science of education / by Thomas Jarrold, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To a child little more than two years old the love of order may be inculcated, by attention being directed to the derangement which a family necessarily creates: by the furniture being designedly displaced, and the child introduced to witness the confusion, and to point out the proper place for each article ; or by the play-things being used with care, and put by with regularity; or by such other means as draw attention to the subject. Caution at the same age may also be taught; that instinctive fear, manifested by a child when in danger of falling from its nurse's arms, is a prelude to caution—hence, to warn of danger is all that is necessary to excite vigilance and circumspec- tion. These dispositions, by themselves, form a tame and insipid character, but when some powerful motive, as an exciting passion, stimulates to action, then their influence is most beneficially felt in forming a basis which ensures that weight of character, which energy, combined with prudence, always commands. If, for instance, to order and caution there be added patriot- ism or philantrophy, the danger of their intemperate use is p^uarded a^-ainst, and the character, so circum- stanced, is dignified by their controul—thus passion becomes a virtue.—but if, in the place of a moral vir-