And yet this has rarely been the case.

How frequently do we hear persons remark on the ill conduct of children, "It is surprising they should do so;--they have been taught better things!" Very likely; and they may have all the golden rules of virtue alluded to, carefully stored up in their memories; but they are like the hoarded treasures of the miser, the disposition to use them is wanted.

It is this which we must strive to produce and promote in the child.

Indeed, if we can but be the instruments of exciting a love of goodness, it will not err, nor lack the knowledge how to do good, even though we were to forget to give it any rules or maxims.

It is to the heart we must turn our attention in the moral treatment of children.