Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sibility that their child is to be a drunkard? Little do they remember that he can be, even before he has so much as tasted the cup ; and that they themselves can make him so, virtually without meaning it, even before he has gotten his language. Nine-tenths of the intemperate drinking begins, not in grief and destitution, as we often hear, but in vicious feeding. Here the scale and order of simplicity is first broken, and then what shall a distempered or distemperate life run to, more certainly than what is intemperate? False feeding engenders false appetite, and when the soul is burning all through in the fires of false appetite, what is that but a universal uneasiness? And what will this uneasiness more actually do than partake itself to the pleasure and excitement of drink?" Much more that is suggestive and helpful to the mother is given in his chapter entitled " Physical Nurture to be a means of Grace." Froebel, from whose eagle eye nothing which related to the child seemed to escape, saw this danger, and in his "Education of Man" says: "In the early years the child's food is a matter of very great importance; not only may the child by this means be made indolent or active, sluggish or mobile, dull or bright, inert orvigorous, but, indeed, for his entire life. Impressions, inclinations, appetites, which the child may have derived from his food, the turn it may have given to his senses and even to his life as a whole, can only with difficulty be set aside, even when the age of self-dependence has been reached ; they are one with his whole physical life, and therefore intimately connected with his spiritual life. And again, parents and nurses should ever remember, as underlying every precept in this direction, the following general principle: that simplicity and frugality in ...