Some account of the life and character of the late Thomas Bateman, M.D. F.L.S. physician to the public dispensary and to the fever institution in London / [James Rumsey].

  • Rumsey, James, 1778-1856.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Some account of the life and character of the late Thomas Bateman, M.D. F.L.S. physician to the public dispensary and to the fever institution in London / [James Rumsey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    moral germs, whicli have been provided for the best benefits, and the most exquisite gratifica- tions of our maturer days; nay, are the roots, from whence are to spring up all that is to stamp the character for ever, and thus essentially to influence the solemn question, whether eternity shall be inconceivably happy or miserable. For with the birth of the child commences a being which is to have no end, a capacity for affection, which is, in fact, the only capacity for happmess; a right or a wrong direction of that power of the soul, determining the difference between happi- ness and misery; between Heaven, therefore, and its awful contrast 1 In this view, how mo- mentous is the duty of the parent and the tutor to look with all diligence to whatsoever, in any way, involves moral feelings, actions, and habits ! It is by perverted affections that sensibility is extinguished, and not by advancing age (as is so commonly supposed); for age only acts by strengthening habits, and therefore confirms and expands the benevolent affections as surely as it rivets the selfish. In this great particular then, as in every other, train up a child in the