Excerpt from A Consideration of Gentle Ways: And Other Essays It is not always that we can use fully apply the soft pad. Roughness and painfulness are sometimes an element in our duty. We have heard of a mother who administered chloro form to her Child before whipping him. But we can get no good from a pepper-plaister if there be no pun gency in the pepper. The discipline of pain cannot yet be dispensed with, and an illuminated conscience can even welcome the disagreeable stimu lus. My dear, said a mother to her little one ...
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Excerpt from A Consideration of Gentle Ways: And Other Essays It is not always that we can use fully apply the soft pad. Roughness and painfulness are sometimes an element in our duty. We have heard of a mother who administered chloro form to her Child before whipping him. But we can get no good from a pepper-plaister if there be no pun gency in the pepper. The discipline of pain cannot yet be dispensed with, and an illuminated conscience can even welcome the disagreeable stimu lus. My dear, said a mother to her little one, what would you do if poor mamma were to die And that profound baby replied: I fink I s'ould have to thpank myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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