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Excerpt from The System of Infants Schools
Such considerations seldom present them selves to the mind of the. Parent of a poor family. The great and almost the sole aim of the mother, to whom theinfancy of life is ne cessarily entrusted, is to keep the child out of the way of bodily injury, and to secure, by every means, immediate submission to her com mands. The authority which is thus preserved, is principally that of 'the passions. It oscillates between anger and indulgence: or, when neither the one nor the other of these may be employed, it leaves the infant uncontrolled, to adopt any mode of feeling or action, which the natural disposition may give life to, or circumstances suggest. When the parent is weary of the trouble which thus devolves upon her. She seeks relief, by sending her infant children to the re sidence of a dame, who is contented, for a small remuneration, to hold a contest with the passions of the young, and, by whatever means, to reduce their feelings into an obedience to her commands.kw.
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