Author : American Institute of Instruction
Release : 2017-01-08
Genre : Education
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LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE write by American Institute of Instruction. This book was released on 2017-01-08. LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from The Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at Pittsfield, August 15, 16, 17, 1843: Including the Journal of Proceedings, and a List of the Officers But the little beings that are all the while springing into life around us to be educated, are the sinful offspring of apostate parents. How deeply depraved, how strongly inclined to sin from the cradle, this is not the place to inquire. All agree, that they show an early bias in the wrong direction and that, left to grow up without moral culture and restraint, the great majority would go far astray, and become bad members of society. This is sufficient for our present argument. The evil bias must be counteracted. For the safety of the state as well as for their own sakes, all its children must be brought un der the forming and sanative in uence of religious edu cation. No adequate substitute was ever devised, or ever can be. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. This is divine; and the opposite is equally true. Train up a child in the way he should not go, or, which comes to about the same thing, leave him to take the wrong way of his own accord, and when he is old he will not depart from that. His tread will be heavier and heavier upon the broad and beaten track. Men do not gath er grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may those also do good who are accustomed to do evil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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."