These remarks not only apply to the names of visible things, but more particularly to those which are abstract.

If I would say, shew a child _a horse_, before you tell it the name of the animal, still more would I urge it on the teacher to let a child see what love, kindness, religion, &c.

are, before it is told what names to designate those principles by.

If our ignorance as to material things be the result of instructing the children in names, instead of enabling them to become acquainted with things, so, on the other hand, I believe we may account, in the same way to some extent, for _virtue_ being so frequently a mere word, an empty sound, amongst men, instead of an active principle.
Our next endeavour is to teach the children to express their thoughts upon things; and if they are not checked by injudicious treatment, they will have some on every subject.

We first teach them to express _their notions_, we then tell them ours, and truth will prevail even in the minds of children.