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The worst and most abandoned of men make vice odious; they make virtue so. And the feelings of the children, bad and insensible as they are apt to become, do really evince, though unhappily, the dignity of human nature ; they show that virtue was not designed to be poured into the ear in dinning precepts or dull complaints, but to be the offspring of an inward energy, selfwrought, selfchosen ; influenced, indeed, by arguments and considerations from without, but drawing its own inference; bringing out from communion with itself and with the spirit of God, its own free and glorious result.Neither w it do to show a constant and morbid anxiety to have a child excel in any one thing, even though that thing be virtue; it w not do, by constant Jiints or exhortations, and especially with an air of dissatisfaction and complaint, to urge MBT it. The human affections are not to be won in this manner. They are not so won to other objects; why should we expect them, by such means, to be attracted to religion ?Again, religion has been treated too abstractly. Whether as a system of theology, as a state of feeling, or as a course of conduct, it has been made to have too little connection with MBT Shoes real life and real MBT Shoes Clearance welfare MBT Shoes Clearance ; it has been made too theoretical, scholastic, technical, barren of interest, devoid of plain and intelligible appeals to the wants, feelings and affections of human nature. I Have we not an exact ustration of this, in our schools ? The human mind has a natural aptitude and desire for knowledge. Do the children in the most of our schools love the knowledge that is inculcated there ? Have they associated agreeable ideas with their classbooks, and their schoolrooms, and with the time they pass in them ?