ON THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.


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Never suffer your children to ad- |
vance in years before you attend TO their
education.-The younger they are, the
more tender aud soft their minds, and tie
more susceptible Of impressions conse-
quently if you neglect them, they will
imbibe notions from every example which
presents itself to them and as there are
more bad examples han good, snd the
bad, from certain obliquity in nature,
being more congenial TO our dispositions
than good, the mind is mstured 10 cor
rnpiness, in proportion as they enter life.
Think then Of their education, as soon as
they are born, If you wish they should
benefit more certainly and easily by those
Instructions which they will receive az.
terwards."


!" The Kings Of Persia place their chill
dren under the direction OF four Of the
greatest men 10 the nation, viz. the most
wise, the most just, the most temperate,
and the most courageous"


6 The first teaches them religion. The
second incnlcates in them the strongest
principles Of truth aud justice. From the
third they learn to subsIue their passions
and from the fourth they acquire con
tempt Of danger"


Vaccination. As some persons ye
have doubts Of the efficacy Of vaccination
in securing the human system against the
small pox. it may be we'll to state tha
John Livingston, ESQ. surgeon Of ths
East India Company i China, writes al
follows.


81 sometimes vaccinate 500 week
and for The last ten years may set up I
claim to experience on the subject; ye
no failure has occurred in my practice
MIR. Pearson has been still more extensive
ly engaged than myself, and has beer
equally successful !; yet you know tha
the smallpox RACES III China every
spring, sometimes with extreme violence
7 have often seen it in its worst forms ii
the midst of my vaccinated patients i
the same bed, yet no failure has occurred
not even yariolated appearance"


Moloch. This borrid idol of the ancien
Amnloniies and Canaanites, is said 70 hav
been made Of brass followed within, ant
being thoroughly heated like fire in fur
mace, II was prepared TO receive its vic
tins, s,which consisted Of children. The lido
extended out arms, in the act Of receiving
so otha, whenthe human victim was present
ed, II dropt into The deyoaring furnace.
was custom forp parents TO select The mos
lovely Of their children. In the u1ea
time, to drown The cries Of their victims
various kinds Of musical instruments wer
sounded during the shocking scene.