A familiar treatise on the physical education of children, during the early period of their lives / Tr. from the German ... To which are prefixed, three introductory lectures on the same subject: by A.F.M. Willich.

  • Struve, Christian August, 1767-1807.
Date:
1802
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Credit: A familiar treatise on the physical education of children, during the early period of their lives / Tr. from the German ... To which are prefixed, three introductory lectures on the same subject: by A.F.M. Willich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f Many weak parents are apt to console them- selves respeding the diversified miseries and bodily defeds, disease, and early dissolution of their darl- ings, by considering all these as natural and ine- vitable events. But such persons do not refied upon the possibility of better management, and consequently cannot conceive a degree of success more adequate to their wishes : they do not attend to the healthier children of others, who proceed upon a very different plan. Instead or calmly wiping away their tears, and admitting a prede- stined fatality, they ought in duty to ask them- selves, or to inquire of others, how their children have been treated. These spurious consolations, however, must often be attributed to the ignorance of those who, without troubling themselves respeding such tri- fles, implicitly follow the general custom. We have been so educated, say they, and become adults; why should not our children be managed in a similar manner ?—for instance, hundreds have prospered who werQ fed upon meal-porridge : or the prejudiced mother replies to her more en- lightened daughter, that, as all her sisters have been straightened in swaddling-clothes, and worn stays, why should her children make exceptions from the old established rule ? Prejudice is the perpetual enemy of reason ; its slaves are both blind and deaf; and no rational jpook on education has ever been published, from which