A View of the Elementary Principles of Education : Founded On the Study of the Nature of Man
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Several persons, however, are par- ticularly fortunate in preserving the energy of their mind to a great age ; but the greater number of old people are deceived, if they take themselves to be still what they were when young. Among the intellectual faculties, those of indi- viduality, form, eventuality, comparison, and lan- guage, appear first. Children soon know many individual objects and facts, and conceive general notions ; they call, for instance, every young being, child. Then the facultie...s of size, coloring, local- ity, number, order, time and tune, appear suc- cessively. Objects and their phenomena ought to be taught first, and afterwards the qualities of ob- jects and their relations. Among the feelings or affective faculties, those of attachment, cautiousness, love of approbation, acquisitiveness, conibativeness, secretiveness, de_ structiveness, firmness, benevolence, conscientious- LAWS OF EXERCISE. 119 ness, and imitation, are very early active. Those of reverence and amativeness appear much later.
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