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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    tue, there be added to the love of order and caution, angler, this also will be restrained by them, and that which otherwise would have been injurious becomes at least inoffensive. The dispositions which actually form the man are not those which direct, but those which execute—not those which are conspicuous, but those which are concealed. Thus the love of order curbs the turbulence of passion, and before the power- ful dispositions, which take a prominent part in many characters, are in existence, the mild and unosten- tatious passions and propensities of infancy are, by proper care, formed into valuable habits, and inter- woven with the constitutional tendencies, and form a controuling' check to those corrupt and turbulent pas- sions which afterwards arise. The love of money is not known in infancy, but when it has come into ex- istence, if not counteracted by the unostentatious vir- tues, generates the miser; revenge also is unfelt in childhood, but it drives a man to madness. There needs the operation of the more sedate dispositions to controul the violent, those which are sedate have their origin in infancy, and at that period open to the mother her brightest prospect and her most urgent duty ; with its discharge rests the character of her child, around whom she can form a safeguard against the violence of those debasing passions, which are soon to occupy its breast: she is not ignorant that every un- controuled passion degrades the mind, but by what means can a passion be controuled if not by her ? Can it controul itself? Certainly it cannot. Passion has no power over itself, physical imbecility may les- sen its strength, but the passion is the same; other