It requires no ingenuity, no skill, no contrivance, no thought--nothing but steady persistence in a simple routine.

This was the first of the three modes of action enumerated at the commencement of this discussion.

There were two others named, which, though requiring higher qualities in the mother than simple steadiness of purpose, will make the work far more easy and agreeable, where these qualities are possessed.
Some further consideration of the subject of punishment, with special reference to the light in which it is to be regarded in respect to its nature and its true mode of action, will occupy the next chapter..