This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... personal magnetism?" asks Bronson Alcott. "Tis the charm of good fellowship as of good writing." We must consider that a child is even more sensitive to this ineffable attraction than the most refined adult. Never afterward, in all his life, will the enthusiast who, at ten years, twines his arms about the neck of his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... personal magnetism?" asks Bronson Alcott. "Tis the charm of good fellowship as of good writing." We must consider that a child is even more sensitive to this ineffable attraction than the most refined adult. Never afterward, in all his life, will the enthusiast who, at ten years, twines his arms about the neck of his fidus Achates and vows eternal affection, feel the same thrill of delight, which comes to him now from that unreserved abandonment. Never again will the little girl who so worshipfully regards the dear friend who is taking dolls' tea with her in the nursery, derive the same rapture from intercourse with any one of her future five hundred friends. Nature is strong in the pure, simple heart of childhood. Let us meddle with her reverently. Children often go to the well and bear away a brimming cup, to have it dashed from their lips just as they are about to taste of it. Such a cup, most probably, will be the box full of treasures which they have spent their summer vacation in accumulating. "Trash!" the mother calls it disdainfully, and she has no room for it in the family winter quarters. Pray, stop, good mother, and look into the matter a little, before throwing away the results of your child's months of labor. Do we not treasure mementos of the past? Is there not in an old album a few pressed leaves, a battered cup put away in a secret place, an old print or two in a cupboard? We keep them for the pleasure associated with them. A child, too, has his associations, and his little heart twines fervently around something that looks to us utterly worthless. Instead of condemning his little properties, let us induce him to look them over, when packing up, and save what he most values. It is such consideration as this towards ...
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