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CHAPTER XII--THE DISCIPLINE OF EXPERIENCE
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He who has not a loving heart for his child, cannot pretend to have any true love for humanity .-- Jules Simon's LE DEVOIR.] [Footnote 112: 'Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education.'] [Footnote 113: Speaking of the force of habit, St.Augustine says in his 'Confessions' "My will the enemy held, and thence had made a chain for me, and bound me.

For of a froward will was a lust made; and a lust served became custom; and custom not resisted became necessity.

By which links, as it were, joined together [11whence I called it a chain] a hard bondage held me enthralled."] [Footnote 114: Mr.Tufnell, in 'Reports of Inspectors of Parochial School Unions in England and Wales,' 1850.] [Footnote 115: See the letters [11January 13th, 16th, 18th, 20th, and 23rd, 1759], written by Johnson to his mother when she was ninety, and he himself was in his fiftieth year .-- Crokers BOSWELL, 8vo.Ed.pp.113, 114.] [Footnote 116: Jared Sparks' 'Life of Washington.'] [Footnote 117: Forster's 'Eminent British Statesmen' [11Cabinet Cyclop.] vi.

8.] [Footnote 118: The Earl of Mornington, composer of 'Here in cool grot,' &c.] [Footnote 119: Robert Bell's 'Life of Canning,' p.

37.] [Footnote 1110: 'Life of Curran,' by his son, p.


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