It is also very natural even for minds more independent and acute, to regard with some reverence whatsoever was gravely impressed upon them in childhood.

Hence the necessity that all school-books should proceed from skillful hands.

Instruction should tell things as they are, and never falter through negligence.
18.

I have admitted that definitions are not the only means by which a general knowledge of the import of language may be acquired; nor are they the only means by which the acquisition of such knowledge may be aided.

To exhibit or point out _things_ and tell their names, constitutes a large part of that instruction by which the meaning of words is conveyed to the young mind; and, in many cases, a mere change or apposition of terms may sufficiently explain our idea.