Some important advice to the world, or, The way to prevent and cure the diseases incident to the human frame : demonstrated and based upon principles agreeable to nature, and suited for all climates and constitutions : with an account of the author's own case / James Morison.

  • Morison, James, 1770-1840.
Date:
1825
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    2U anguish and sorrow it causes to these youn^ ])eings, and the manner in which they are treated? Indeed, it must be so, when you congregate such a number- Parents seem eager to seize the earliest opportunity to render their lives unhappy, because it is the custom. And do you think, by such a system, that you advan- tage either body or mind ? There are not 10 out of 100 that do not suffer inconceivably from it, and never recover from its bad ef- fects. Confinement, chastisement, continual application above their powers, a dull insipid life of privations, are the means adopted to bring up our youth of both sexes, and from their most juvenile years. This damps and thwarts all their natural sprightliness and gaiety, and, by injuring their bodies, prevents the growth and expansion of their minds It is said by the advocates of boarding-school education, that this initiates them by times with the ways of the world, makes them more capable of playing their parts in real hfe :— then, from the same reasoning, all the youth of town should surpass in acuteness and in- telligence those of the country, and others educated at home; which we by no means