The children may be brought to feel, that to impart happiness is to receive it,--that being kind to their little schoolfellows, they not only secure a return of kindness, but actually receive a personal gratification from so doing; and that there is more pleasure in forgiving an injury than in resenting it.

Some I know will be apt to say,--that after all, thus is nothing but _selfishness_ or _self-love_.

It is an old matter of dispute, and I leave those to quarrel over it who please.

Every one knows and feels the difference between that which we call _selfishness_, and that which is comprehensively termed by the lips of divine truth, the "_love of our neighbour_." If it must be called self-love, I can only say that it is the proper direction of the feeling which is to be sought.
In the work of moral culture, it will be necessary not only to observe the child's conduct under the restraint of school observation and discipline; but at those times when it thinks itself at liberty to indulge its feelings unnoticed.

The evil propensities of our nature have all the wiliness of the serpent, and lurk in their secret places, watching for a favourable opportunity of exercise and display.