This is the very foundation of all social order, rule, and government, and to relax it is to loosen the very keystone of society.

He ought also perpetually to inculcate obedience to their parents upon the children, as being one of their first and most important duties.

Some have objected to our schools, that they are calculated to loosen the ties and the authority between parent and child; but if these precepts are carefully attended to, the result will be precisely the reverse.

It is, however, necessary to state, in the three cases just noticed, that in each, the children had been previously conquered by me, and young as they were, they knew quite well that, although such conduct as they exhibited gained the end they had in view with the parent, similar conduct would not succeed with me.

It is little short of cruelty to let any child have its own way in such matters.